Çavuştepe Kalesi was my first visit to a Castle in "North Kurdistan". This Urartu (Ararat) ruin was constructed some time between the 13th to 7th Century BC! Although some of the stones remaining were the originals unearthed partlially by American archaeologists, some others were reconstructions... including the cuneiform writing on some of the bricks which was borrowed from the Assyrians, with whom the Urartians were at war with (is this correct?) Eventually, the Urartians fell and the Armenians settled... By the 6th C BC, the area was governed by Persian rule... and so on... (Was it two centuries later when the Arabs came and the Armenian prince fled to Akdamar?)
This ruin is famous as it is the best preserved foundations showing an advanced system of hydro engineering; water storage and as you can see in the second photo, the oldest ever excavated toilet!
The final picture shows what the castle might have looked like way back in the 13th Century BC.
Çavuştepe Kalesi was my first visit to a Castle in "North Kurdistan". This Urartu (Ararat) ruin was constructed some time between the 13th to 7th Century BC! Although some of the stones remaining were the originals unearthed partlially by American archaeologists, some others were reconstructions... including the cuneiform writing on some of the bricks which was borrowed from the Assyrians, with whom the Urartians were at war with (is this correct?) Eventually, the Urartians fell and the Armenians settled... By the 6th C BC, the area was governed by Persian rule... and so on... (Was it two centuries later when the Arabs came and the Armenian prince fled to Akdamar?)
This ruin is famous as it is the best preserved foundations showing an advanced system of hydro engineering; water storage and as you can see in the second photo, the oldest ever excavated toilet!
The final picture shows what the castle might have looked like way back in the 13th Century BC.
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