Urartian chamber tomb, water channel discovered in Trkiye's Van
BY ANADOLU AGENCY
VAN, TÜRKIYE AUG 19, 2022 - 1:58 PM GMT+3
A view of the chamber tomb in the Gürpınar district of Van, eastern Türkiye, Aug. 17, 2022. (AA Photo)
At the ongoing excavations in the Gürpınar district of eastern Türkiye’s Van province, a chamber tomb carved into the bedrock and a water channel dating back to the Urartians have been found.
Archaeologists discovered the remains of a castle dating back 2,800 years on a mountain at an altitude of 2,500 meters (8,200 feet) in the district as part of a project sponsored by Van Yüzüncü Yıl University (YYÜ) last year. A large cistern with a depth of 6.5 meters, a length of 6.5 meters and a diameter of 2.5 meters, walls and ceramic artifacts were also found in the castle.
The chamber tomb and water channel remains found at an altitude of 2,500 meters (8,200 feet) in the district, Van, eastern Türkiye, Aug. 17, 2022. (AA Photo)
Maintaining their works in the area, the experts, under the supervision of professor Rafet Çavuşoğlu, who is the head of the YYÜ Faculty of Letters Archaeology Department, recently discovered the remains of a water channel and a chamber tomb.
Noting that the castle, believed to have been used by the Urartian rulers, also hosted different civilizations in the Middle Ages, Çavuşoğlu said that the structure was built in a pyramidal form, which is the common feature of the Urartian architecture.
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