🇦🇲 Armenia · Rock art
Ughtasar North Plateau Caravanserai
Late Bronze to Medieval Silk Road · Urartian, Medieval Armenian (Zakarid), Seljuk
North plateau caravanserai rock-shelter with medieval caravan petroglyphs at 2820 m.
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95 places in the atlas, 1 of them inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Rock art
Late Bronze to Medieval Silk Road · Urartian, Medieval Armenian (Zakarid), Seljuk
North plateau caravanserai rock-shelter with medieval caravan petroglyphs at 2820 m.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Early Christian Armenian (301–650 CE) · Early Armenian Apostolic; Urartian–Hellenistic pagan predecessor
301 CE Gregory the Illuminator's cathedral over Tir temple — world's oldest state church, Hripsime 618 tetraconch.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Rock art
Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze I · Late Chalcolithic Syunik-Areni, Kura-Araxes early
Upper chamber 12 m above Areni-1 winery cave with Chalcolithic lattice petroglyphs.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Period Iron Age · Regional culture Temple-Universal
Hillfort Rampart Temple 93 — Armenia Region 9 in Armenia Region 9, Armenia is a Bronze Age temple-complex with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Rock art
Bronze Age (3500–1000 BCE) · Syunik Bronze to Urartian pastoral
Crater tarn shore with bull, net and 3-m wheel calendar at 3220 m.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Rock art
Chalcolithic to Iron Age · Kura-Araxes, Trialeti-Vanadzor, Lchashen-Metsamor
Syunik 3300-m crater-lake plateau with >4000 black basalt petroglyphs, chariot and solar calendar boulders.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Megalith
Middle Bronze Age to Iron Age (~2000 BCE – 600 BCE; astronomical claims to 5500 BCE disputed) · Kura-Araxes / Trialeti to Urartian (southern Armenian Bronze Age)
221 basalt menhirs 0.5–2.8 m high form a central 45-m ellipse with 32-m straight avenue and northeast arm, plus an outlying circular tomb and dolmen-like cists.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Period Late Holocene · Regional culture Temple-Universal
Fortress Citadel Temple 74 — Armenia Region 2 in Armenia Region 2, Armenia is a Bronze Age temple-complex with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Rock art
Early to Late Bronze via Early Iron · Kura-Araxes, Trialeti, Lchashen-Metsamor, Urartian fringe
Lower southeast lava field 1.1 km from crater lake with 380 boulders and vishap cart motifs.
