Earliest Cyclopean Walls in Armenia (c. 2200 BC)

March 07, 2026Architecture

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📍 Armenian Plateau

Cyclopean walls in the Armenian plateau date to the Kura Araxes (Shengavitian) Period, c. 3400/3200–2500 BC — among the oldest examples worldwide! 🏛️ These polygonal stone walls from the Early Bronze Age show construction techniques that would appear centuries later across Europe. The Caucasus was a hub of architectural innovation long before we thought.

Key facts

Cyclopean walls in the Armenian plateau date to the early Bronze Age, around 2200 BC.
These walls are among the oldest known examples of cyclopean masonry worldwide.
Construction style is rough, polygonal, and resembles other bronze‑age sites across Europe.

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Shengavit (site) - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org

It was inhabited during a series of settlement phases from around 3000 BC cal to 2500 BC cal in the Kura–Araxes (Shengavitian) period of the Early Bronze Age ...

Perspectives on the Kura-Araxes from Shengavit - ResearchGateresearchgate.net

PDF | On Sep 13, 2021, Mitchell Rothman published Perspectives on the Kura-Araxes from Shengavit | Find, read and cite all the research you ...

The History of Shengavit, Armenia in the 4th and 3rd Millennia BCEwhitelevy.fas.harvard.edu

The landscape of the Kura-Araxes covers as great an area as early empires. Yet, as far as we know, this was a society of small-scale agro-pastoral settlers with ...

(PDF) The Archaeological Site of Shengavit: An Ancient Town in the ...academia.edu

9 The period of Shengavitian culture was an important stage of the development of the early Armenian culture (ed.). FUNDAMENTAL ARMENOLOGY № 1, 2015 Simonyan ...

Cyclopean masonry | Ancient, Stone, Architecture - Britannicabritannica.com

Cyclopean masonry, wall constructed without mortar, using enormous blocks of stone. This technique was employed in fortifications.

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