Zorats Karer

Zorats Karer

Zorats Karer ("transl|hy|Zorac‘ K‘arer, Zorac Qarer, Zorakarer, Zorakar" Armenian: _hy. Զորաց Քարեր), also known as Angelakot or Karahunj ("transl|hy|K‘arahunǰ, Qarahunj, Karahundj", _hy. Քարահունջ), is a megalithic structure near the city of Sisian in the Syunik province of Armenia.

History

According to scientist’s findings, a temple consisting of 40 stones built in honor of the Armenians’ main God, Ari, meaning the Sun, is situated in the central part of Carahunge. Besides the temple, it had a large and developed observatory, and also a university that makes up the temple’s wings.The structure surrounds a Bronze Age cemetery set on a natural elevation. The site was in use from the Middle Bronze Age (2nd to 1st millennia BC), and contains some extraordinary chamber tombs. A wall of rocks and loam was built, of which only the vertical rocks remain standing.In the Hellenistic and Roman period, the site was probably used as a fortified place of refuge.

The site has some notability in archaeoastronomy, where it is interpreted as an "ancient observatory". Armenian physicist and archaeoastronomy enthusiast Paris Herouni dates it to 7,000 B.C.

A similar structure is found at Metsamor.

ee also

* Stonehenge
* Arbor Low
* Avebury
* Callanish
* Circular ditches
* Cromlech
* Dolmen
* Megaliths
* Gungywamp
* Harrespil
* List of megalithic monuments in Cork
* Photographic list of stone circles
* Long Meg and Her Daughters
* Menhir
* Mitchell's Fold
* Neolithic
* Petroforms
* Stone circle (Iron Age)
* Trilithon

References

* [http://www.vaa.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/Armenia/2000/Armenia-2000-Eng.html 2000 Survey in Southern Armenia] , Institut für Vorderasiatische Archäologie, University of Munich.

External links

* [http://www.armenianhighland.com Armenian History - contains detailed info]
* [http://www.armeniainfo.am/sites/?section=other_desc&page=1&site_id=17 armeniainfo.am]
* [http://www.astrologycom.com/armstone1.html Karahundj - Armenia's Stonehenge]
* [http://www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Karahunj Karahunj at ArmeniaPedia]
* [http://www.welcomearmenia.com/main.php?id=7&sid=203&lang=eng Zorats Karer - ancient astrological observatory]


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