2,700-Year-Old Irrigation System Reveals Engineering Power of Ancient Armenia
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2,700-Year-Old Irrigation System Reveals Engineering Power of Ancient Armenia
Argishtikhinili viewed from the north, Armenia. Credit: Nazarij Buławka / CC BY 4.0 A 2,700-year-old irrigation system near Armavir in Armenia is giving researchers new insight into how ancient rulers turned dry land into fields, gardens, and vineyards. The study, led by Nazarij Buławka and published in “Antiquity,” shows how water management helped shape one of the region’s most important ancient cities. An ancient city depended on water Armavi…
A large hidden hydraulic system mapped around the Urartian fortress of Argishtikhinili in Armenia | Archaeology News Online Magazine
Archaeologists studying the ancient fortress of Argishtikhinili in Armenia’s Araks Valley have identified more than 1,000 kilometers of water-management features across the landscape, including over 134 kilometers of channels that could trace back to the kingdom of Urartu. The findings offer a new look at how one of the ancient Near East’s lesser-known states transformed […]
The aerial image shows it all. Where the human eye, at ground level, sees only modern farmland and roads, Cold War spy satellites and today's sensors have revealed a hidden landscape: tens of kilometers of ancient canals, dikes, and dry riverbeds that once carried water to the […]
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