Almaty said to be 2,000 years old

    By Alexander Bogatik     Almaty could be 2,000 years old, 1,000 years older than previously thought.     Karl Baipakov, director of the Margulan Institute of Archaeology, is advancing that theory on the basis of artefacts found near Navoi Street in Almaty. The excavated buried mounds date back to the first centuries of the modern...