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ARMENIANS FIND LARGE ANCIENT SETTLEMENT OF EARLY BRONZE AGE
Iranian Cultural Heritage News Agency, Iran
Nov 17 2005
Near the village of Tsakhkasar, archaeologists got on the tracks of an
ancient settlement of the Early Bronze Age referring the Archaeological
Culture Kur-Araks.
ArCnews, 16 November 2005 -- On the western slopes of Aragats, near
the village of Tsakhkasar, archaeologists got on the tracks of an
ancient settlement of the Early Bronze Age (the fourth millenium
BC) referring the Archaeological Culture Kur-Araks. Director of the
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Armenian National
Academy of Sciences, Aram Kalantaryan, told ARMINFO. The monument
is unique for its unprecedented scale of an ancient settlement. It
occupies a territory of about 100 ha, while the Kur Araks lowland
towns are known to occupy not more than 10 ha. The settlement was
surrounded with cyclopean fortress. Archaeologists have excavated
a 300 sq/m ancient cultural layer so far and found a unique bronze
reaping-hook. Unfortunately, irrigation canals were laid there yet
in 1930, which has partially damaged the monument.
Kalantaryan said that an Armenian-American joint expedition near
the village of Gegharot, on the northern slope of Aragats, found
another unique monument of the Late Bronze Age - a sanctuary of
the 15th-12th centuries BC. He called the find `a real fount of the
ancient material culture of Armenia`. The sanctuary is unique for the
latest such complex found by archaeologists in the village of Metsamor
belonged to later period. Archaeologists found a woman`s breast bronze
decoration and semiprecious stones, including a cut rock crystal.
Kalantaryan also informed ARMINFO of another find, an ancient pagan
temple of Antic Age on the bank of the Araks near the ancient town of
Artashat. Archaeologists suppose it was the very temple the Armenian
chroniclers Movses Khorenatsi and Agatangeghos wrote about in their
works on Grigor Lusavorich. Kalantaryan expressed satisfaction that for
the first time since the independence of Armenia the state budget for
2006 envisages funds for archaeological excavations. While, the present
season was partially financed from the governmental reserve fund.
Iranian Cultural Heritage News Agency, Iran
Nov 17 2005
Near the village of Tsakhkasar, archaeologists got on the tracks of an
ancient settlement of the Early Bronze Age referring the Archaeological
Culture Kur-Araks.
ArCnews, 16 November 2005 -- On the western slopes of Aragats, near
the village of Tsakhkasar, archaeologists got on the tracks of an
ancient settlement of the Early Bronze Age (the fourth millenium
BC) referring the Archaeological Culture Kur-Araks. Director of the
Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Armenian National
Academy of Sciences, Aram Kalantaryan, told ARMINFO. The monument
is unique for its unprecedented scale of an ancient settlement. It
occupies a territory of about 100 ha, while the Kur Araks lowland
towns are known to occupy not more than 10 ha. The settlement was
surrounded with cyclopean fortress. Archaeologists have excavated
a 300 sq/m ancient cultural layer so far and found a unique bronze
reaping-hook. Unfortunately, irrigation canals were laid there yet
in 1930, which has partially damaged the monument.
Kalantaryan said that an Armenian-American joint expedition near
the village of Gegharot, on the northern slope of Aragats, found
another unique monument of the Late Bronze Age - a sanctuary of
the 15th-12th centuries BC. He called the find `a real fount of the
ancient material culture of Armenia`. The sanctuary is unique for the
latest such complex found by archaeologists in the village of Metsamor
belonged to later period. Archaeologists found a woman`s breast bronze
decoration and semiprecious stones, including a cut rock crystal.
Kalantaryan also informed ARMINFO of another find, an ancient pagan
temple of Antic Age on the bank of the Araks near the ancient town of
Artashat. Archaeologists suppose it was the very temple the Armenian
chroniclers Movses Khorenatsi and Agatangeghos wrote about in their
works on Grigor Lusavorich. Kalantaryan expressed satisfaction that for
the first time since the independence of Armenia the state budget for
2006 envisages funds for archaeological excavations. While, the present
season was partially financed from the governmental reserve fund.