The team, led jointly by Iranian archaeologist Hamid Khatib-Shahidi and Italian archaeologist Rafael Bichone, began the surveys about three weeks ago to demarcate the boundaries of the Urartian state ...

A team of Armenian-Italian archaeologists has presented to the world the discovery of an imposing fortified complex, the Fortress of Bandivan, located in the Amasia Depression in the Shirak region ...

Bīsotūn, "Urartians" and "Armenians" of the Achaemenid Texts, and the Origins of the Exonyms Armina and Arminiya / Gregory E. Areshian -- Human Images from the Eastern Urartian Periphery: ...

A groundbreaking discovery in eastern Türkiye has shed light on a fascinating chapter of ancient history. In a rugged, mountainous region of Van’s Gürpınar district, a research team uncovered an ...

YEREVAN. – The Armenian-French joint archaeological excavation team, which carried out diggings at the citadel of the ancient Urartian Erebuni Fortress located in Armenia’s capital city Yerevan, ...

Excavations at Kevenli Castle in Van’s İpekyolu district have revealed the largest known storage facility of the ancient Urartian civilization. The discovery of 76 giant, cuneiform-inscribed storage ...

Turkish archaeologists are restoring stone carvings of a 2,700-year-old castle in the country's east. The Ayanis Castle atop a hill overlooking the Lake Van was built by Urartian King Rusa II. The ...