2,700-Year-Old Woman’s Grave with Urartian Seal Found in Armenia
An unusual 2,700-year-old burial in Armenia has revealed a woman laid to rest with a cylinder seal associated with the kingdom of Urartu. A new…
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Monumental 3,000-Year-Old Tomb in Armenia Reveals Weapons and a Sacrificed Horse
Encircled by massive rings of stone, a Late Bronze Age tomb at Shamiram in western Armenia has yielded bronze weapons, obsidian arrowheads and the remains…
Power Served in Bronze: Urartu’s Kings Turned Royal Bowls into Portable Propaganda
More than 100 bronze bowls inscribed with the names of Urartian kings were designed to do more than hold food or drink. A new study…
Archaeologists Relocate a 2,800-Year-Old Urartian Royal Inscription in Nakhchivan
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…
Mysterious 2,500-Year-Old Idol Unearthed in Armenia’s Urartian Fortress Reveals Hidden Rituals After an Empire’s Fall
Archaeologists working in the ancient Urartian fortress of Argishtikhinili, in modern-day Armenia, have uncovered a striking 2,500-year-old volcanic-stone idol that may rewrite what is known…
The 2,800-Year-Old Hasanlu Lovers: When Archaeology Corrected a Love Story
In northwestern Iran, archaeologists uncovered two intertwined skeletons frozen in what looked like a final embrace. For decades, they were known worldwide as the “Hasanlu…