For You Lot Data - 2,700-Year-Old Open-Air Altar Unearthed Inwards Eastern Turkey

H5N1 squad of archaeologists bring unearthed an outdoor altar expanse inward eastern Turkey from the Urartu period.

Credit: AA

The open-air altar expanse dating dorsum 2,700 years was discovered during an digging inward the ancient urban substance of Harput inward the say of Elazığ.

"For the end v years, nosotros bring done digging run inward an expanse of 4,500 foursquare metres," Harput Castle digging squad caput Ismail Aytaç told Anadolu Agency on Monday.

Aytaç said that the presence of the altar reveals that Harput was an of import urban substance governing the percentage every 2nd good every 2nd a cult centre.

Harput was included inward the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List inward 2018.

"Based on excavations together with researches made inward together with roughly Harput, the kickoff short town goes downward to Palaeolithic Age. Harput Castle was likewise built during the Urartian period," according to UNESCO official website.

Source: Anadolu Agency [September 18, 2018]


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