Urartu
Urartu was an ancient
kingdom in the mountainous region north of
Mesopotamia. The people were related to the
Hurrians and
Hittites. The existence of the country dates from around
1000 BC, first as a group of emirates but forming a unified kingdom by
860 BC. It was defeated by the
Scythians in
585 BC. Tushpa, the capital of the kingdom, was located at
Van on the shore of
Lake Van. They were experts in stone architecture and metal industry. They used Assyrian
Cuneiform Script to write in.
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