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6 places to sift through. Narrow by kind, country, period or how firmly each one is established — contested and pseudoarchaeological claims are labelled here, never hidden.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Geoglyph
Neolithic to Early Bronze (Aratashen-Shulaveri to Kura-Araxes) · Armenian Highland Neolithic
Highest (3,200 m, 40°30′N 44°20′E) kite field in the Palearctic on the alpine plateau of Mount Aragats (4,090 m volcano).
🇦🇲 Armenia · Rock art
Early Bronze to Medieval (Kura-Araxes to Orbelian) · Kura-Araxes to medieval Armenian–Seljuk caravaneer
Vayots Dzor Arpa gorge 400 leopard–goat and caravan cup-marks 3000 BCE–1332 CE linking Ughtasar high to Silk Road Selim.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Hellenistic (1st c. CE c.77 CE Tiridates I, rebuilt 1969–75) · Armenian Hellenistic (Tiridates I Greek cult, Mithras?)
Garni rebuilt by Torosyan 1969 academic reconstruction from anastylosis, inscription 77 CE, 1679 earthquake flattened.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Rock art
Chalcolithic to Middle Bronze Age (Kura-Araxes, Early Bronze–Lchashen) · Kura-Araxes to Trialeti pastoralists; later Garni-Shengavit
2850 m Aragats: 20 fish–bull dragon stones (vishaps) 5th–2nd mill BCE with libation holes at Aragats springs.