🇦🇲 Armenia · Ancient city
Erebuni Fortress
Urartian (782 BCE Argishti I) · Urartu
Domineering hill citadel (Arin Berd) whose cuneiform foundation stele says Argishti son of Menua built on empty land and brought 6,600 captives.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Fortress
Karmir Blur (Teishebaini)
Urartian (c.685–590 BCE Rusa II) · Urartu → post-Urartian Scythian
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.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Ancient village
Shengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench — Northern Annex
Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) · Kura-Araxes
Shengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench — Northern Annex in Yerevan, Armenia is a Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) ancient village attributed to Kura-Araxes.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Ancient village
Shengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench
Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) · Kura-Araxes
Shengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench in Yerevan, Armenia is a Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) ancient village attributed to Kura-Araxes.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Ancient village
Shengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench — Eastern Outlier
Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) · Kura-Araxes
Shengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench — Eastern Outlier in Yerevan, Armenia is a Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) ancient village attributed to Kura-Araxes.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Ancient village
Shengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench — Western Terrace
Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) · Kura-Araxes
Shengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench — Western Terrace in Yerevan, Armenia is a Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) ancient village attributed to Kura-Araxes.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Ancient village
Shengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench — Southern Extension
Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) · Kura-Araxes
Shengavit Settlement Quarter South Trench — Southern Extension in Yerevan, Armenia is a Early Bronze Age (3500-2500 BCE) ancient village attributed to Kura-Araxes.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Ancient city
Dvin — Ancient Capital of Armenia
Late Antiquity to Medieval (4th–13th century; peak 7th–10th) · Arsacid Armenia → Sasanian marzpan → Arab Dabil emirate → Bagratuni → Seljuk
100 ha medieval Silk Road capital — trilobed palace, glazed-market vault and ceramic aqueduct.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Temple of Garni — Hellenistic Peripteros Armenia
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 · Temple complex
Zvartnots Cathedral Ruin — Circular Tetraconch Armenia
Early Medieval (643–652 CE Catholicos Nerses III) · Armenian early Christian, Byzantine influence tetraconch
Zvartnots excavated by Toramanian 1901, UNESCO 2000 as Ejmiadzin.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Geoglyph
Mount Aragats Plateau Kites Extension (Armenian Highlands)
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 · Temple complex
Temple of Garni and Garni Gorge Symphony
Classical Armenia Artaxiad–Arsacid (1st century CE; preceded by Bronze fortress) · Hellenistic–Roman Armenian (Artaxiad client kingdom under Neronic patronage)
Only standing Greco-Roman Ionic temple in post-Soviet Armenia (77 CE) over organ-pipe basalt gorge.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Sevanavank Monastery — Peninsula Twin Churches on Sevan Rock
Bagratid (874 Princess Mariam Bagratuni Ashot I's daughter exile dedication 3 churches on island fortress after Arab rule) · Armenian Bagratid Mariam (sister of Ashot I) 874 peninsular rock fortress
Sevan 874 Mariam excavated by Arakelyan, island fort peninsula after 1930s hydropower drawdown.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Echmiadzin Cathedral and Churches — Vagharshapat
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 · Temple complex
Khor Virap — Ararat View Monastery Pit Dungeon Khor Virap
Artashat hill fortress 180 BCE; monastery 642 CE; pit 298 CE Gregory the Illuminator imprisoned 13 years · Armenian Christian and earlier Artaxiad capital Artashat (180 BCE Arshak?)
Khor Virap pit 298 CE Gregory 13 years per Agathangelos, Artashat capital Xenophon.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Rock art
Arpa River Petroglyphs — Vayots Dzor
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
Echmiadzin Cathedral Mother See — Oldest Cathedral State Church 301
Armenian Christianity world first state church (301–303 CE Gregory original wooden; 480 Vahan, 618 Komitas stone; 1654–58 tiers) · Armenian Apostolic Mother See (Gregory the Illuminator foundation 301 CE)
Ejmiatsin excavated by Mnatsakanyan, oldest cathedral-state 301 foundation over fire temple.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Temple complex
Geghard Monastery — Rock-Cut Chapel Geghardavank
Medieval (Main 1215 CE; gavit 1225; rock-cut 1263 Proshian tomb) · Armenian medieval Proshian princes (Zakarian dynasty)
Geghard UNESCO 2000, Proshian cave church 1283 with stalactite.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Rock art
Tirinkatar Vishaps and Cultural Landscape
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.
🇦🇲 Armenia · Fortress
Horom Citadel
Late Bronze to medieval (c.1600 BCE – 1200 CE) · Trialeti–Van kingdom → Armenian medieval
65-ha hillfort on Gyumri–Yerevan highway with 13-m Cyclopean walls, Late Bronze chamber-tombs, Early Iron “Horom pottery” type site, Urartian re-occupation and Armenian 10th-century basilica.