Ancientist

A 2,800-year-old Urartian royal inscription that had eluded researchers for decades has been relocated on a rock face in Azerbaijan’s Nakhchivan region, restoring one of the South Caucasus’s rare Iron Age cuneiform texts to its original setting. The inscription, carved in the Ilandagh area, names the Urartian rulers Ishpuini and Menua and refers to conquered…