Verified40.1556° N · 44.4583° E · 450 m
Karmir Blur (Teishebaini)
Urartian (c.685–590 BCE Rusa II)·Urartu → post-Urartian Scythian·🇦🇲 Yerevan, Armenia, Armenia
About
About Karmir Blur (Teishebaini)
Huge fortress (300 × 200 m) with massive ashlar rampart, beer brewery vats, inscribed bronze shields, Teisheba tower and a lower town archive of cattle tribute. Piotrovsky’s EMP finds preserved burnt grain bridging Urartu collapse. Karmir Blur (Teishebaini) — Citadel of the War God context and stratigraphy linking to regional chronology.
Why it mattersKarmir Blur (Teishebaini) — Citadel of the War God
Open questions
Mysteries & theories
Mysteries
- 01Stratigraphic relation to neighboring cultures?
Theories
- 01Regional trade node
Theories are interpretations, not findings. The seal above tells you how much scholarly weight the place carries.
History
How it came to be
- Built
- Occupied Urartian (c.685–590 BCE Rusa II)
- Period
- Urartian (c.685–590 BCE Rusa II)
- Culture
- Urartu → post-Urartian Scythian
- Builders
- Local communities
- Purpose
- Western Zvartnots plain fortress to Teisheba (storm god) with granary
- Abandoned
- post-period
- Rediscovered
- 19th-century surveys, modern excavations
- Excavation
- Partially excavated
Urartian
Western Zvartnots plain fortress to Teisheba (storm god) with granary
On the ground
Structures & features
Gallery