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The Origins of the Urartians in the light of the Van/Karagündüz excavations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 December 2013

Veli Sevin
Veli Sevin
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Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University
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The Urartian Kingdom, as is well known, played a major power role on the stage of history in eastern Anatolia in the second half of the ninth century BC and remained powerful until the second half of the seventh century BC. With their highly advanced architectural traditions and organised state structure, the Urartians take their place among the most exciting civilisations of the first half of the first millennium BC in the Near East.

Extensive detailed research and publication has been carried out on Urartian civilisation for over a hundred years, but the origin and dynamics of the development of this civilisation are still obscure. The Assyrian annals, which start from the 13th century BC, are at present the only source for understanding the early periods. These records were intended as propaganda and their accuracy is in many instances thus questionable.

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Anatolian Studies , Volume 49 , December 1999 , pp. 159 - 164
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Copyright © The British Institute at Ankara 1999

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