At the foot of Mount Aragatsotn, in the Armenian highlands, sits the site of Aruch — a castle that was never just a castle. Between the 12th and 13th centuries, it housed a high-status residence, complete with stone-slab floors and cisterns. Over time, though, that elite space was carved up into smaller rooms, and holes […]
En la meseta de Aragatsotn, al pie del monte homónimo, se alza el yacimiento de Aruch, un lugar que fue mucho más que una fortaleza. Entre los siglos XII y XIII, sus muros albergaron una residencia de alto rango con pavimentos de losas y cisternas; pero con el tiempo, ese espacio señorial se fragmentó en […]
Ararat-1, a modest limestone cave that lies at an elevation of 1,034 m on the eastern flanks of the Ararat Depression in central Armenia, has yielded a striking puzzle about how Middle Paleolithic humans moved across their landscape.
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