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  • Urartian Fortress Explored in the South Caucasus

    10/25/2025 10:13:14 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 11 replies
    Archaeology Magazine ^ | October 17, 2025 | editors / unattributed
    La Brújula Verde reports that Argishtikhinili, a 2,500-year-old Urartian fortress in western Armenia, is being studied by a team of Armenian and Polish archaeologists. The excavation has yielded living areas, a storage room or pantry, and a one-and-one-half-foot-tall stone carved with human features. Mateusz Iskra of the University of Warsaw said that the well-preserved dwellings were made of earth and have intact floors made of adobe bricks and stone slabs. A room with several large vessels for storing food embedded in the floor was found within one of these large residences. An adjoining room held a stone carved with human...