Archaeological Sites in Armenia
Fortress/citadel in Armenia (7)
Baghaberd Fortress
Baghaberd is a fortress located in the Dzork province of the Syunik province of historical Armenia. According to the tradition reported by the historian Stepanos Orbelian,…
Erebuni Fortress
Erebuni Fortress is an Urartian fortified city, located in Yerevan. It is 1,017 metres above sea level. It was one of several fortresses built along the northern Urartian border…
Horom Citadel
Horom Citadel is a Bronze Age through Urartian fortification situated atop two large hills south of the main road, opposite the dam and Kamut Reservoir, approximately 1 km east of…
Old Horom
Horom Citadel is a Bronze Age through Urartian fortress settlement located about 1 km east of the village of Horom in the Shirak Province of Armenia. The complex consists of two…
Teishebaini
Teishebaini was the capital of the Transcaucasian provinces of the ancient kingdom of Urartu. It is located near the modern city of Yerevan in Armenia. The site was once a…
Teysheba
Odzaberd was an ancient settlement in modern Armenia on the shore of Lake Sevan. It was founded in the 8th century BCE by a ruler of Urartu, an Iron Age kingdom centered in the…
Ushiberd
Ushiberd (Armenian: Ուշիբերդ) is an Iron Age fortress located upon a hill just outside the village of Ushi in the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia. It has almost completely…
City/town/settlement in Armenia (6)
Ancient City of Argishtikhinili
An Urartian city founded in 776 BC by King Argishti I as the northern administrative capital of Urartu, located 15 km southwest of modern Armavir, Armenia. It served primarily as…
Ancient City of Armavir
Ancient Armavir was a major urban center founded, according to Armenian tradition, by King Aramais around 1980 BC. The ruins lie 1 km west of modern Armavir village, with…
Artashat
Artashat, Hellenized as Artaxata and Artaxiasata, was a major city and commercial center of ancient Armenia that served as the capital of the Kingdom of Armenia from its founding…
Karchaghbyur
A village in the Vardenis Municipality of Gegharkunik province, Armenia, previously known as Gedakbulag. Since 1975, archaeologists have been excavating a Persian and Hellenistic…
Metsamor Historical-Archaeological Museum-Reserve
Metsamor is a fortified settlement 32 km west of Yerevan, Armenia, occupied from the 4th millennium BC through the 17th century AD. The site is renowned as one of the earliest…
Shengavit Settlement
The Shengavit Settlement is an archaeological site in present-day Yerevan, Armenia located on a hill south-east of Yerevan Lake. It was inhabited during a series of settlement…
Church/cathedral in Armenia (2)
Cathedral and Churches of Echmiatsin and the Archaeological Site of Zvartnots
UNESCO World Heritage Site (inscribed 2000) comprising Echmiatsin Cathedral and the ruins of Zvartnots in Armenia. Echmiatsin Cathedral is often considered the oldest cathedral in…
Yereruyk Archaeological Site
Yererouk, also Yereruyk or Ererouk, is an ancient Armenian church near the village of Anipemza in the Shirak Province of Armenia. Yererouk was built on a plateau near the Akhurian…
Megalithic stones in Armenia (2)
Carahunge Prehistoric Monument
Carahunge, also known as Zorats Karer, Dik-Dik Karer, Tsits Karer and Karenish, is a prehistoric archaeological site near the town of Sisian in the Syunik Province of Armenia. The…
Hartashen Megalithic Avenue
The site consists of two avenues of megalithic rocks which do not intersect. These avenues are composed of basalt stones which are placed at an angle, and menhirs are arranged in…
Cave Structures in Armenia (1)
Monastery in Armenia (1)
Temple complex in Armenia (1)
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