Mystery Urartu(Ararat) a Kingdom and Prehistoric Relics
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History Urartu A Kingdom and Prehistoric Relics
Urartu, also known as the Kingdom of Urartu or the Kingdom of Van, was a civilization which developed in the Bronze and Iron Age of ancient Armenia, eastern Turkey, and northwestern Iran from the 9th century CE.
Surviving only two centuries, the kingdom mysteriously disappeared in the 6th century BCE and was only rediscovered as a distinct and recognisable ancient culture by excavations carried out in the 19th century CE.
Urartu' comes from urashtu, the Assyrian word for the kingdom, and signifies high place, possibly referring to either the mountainous region or the culture’s common practice of building fortifications on rock promontories.
*A map indicating the extent of the Urartu civilization 9th-6th century CE. which covered parts of modern Armenia, Turkey and Iran.*
The history of Urartu remains fragmentary due to a lack of extended written sources and an overreliance on potentially biased sources from contemporary enemy states such as Assyria.
The territories the Urartu kingdom had once occupied were ultimately taken over by the Medes from Cyrus.
The Urartian language, however, would survive into the Hellenistic period. Many Urartian towns would become the location of important settlements throughout antiquity, and many of their Urartu names survive today.
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