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Urartu: The Mountain Kingdom Before Armenia
Long before the kingdom of Tigranes the Great or the conversion to Christianity, the Armenian highlands were home to a powerful and sophisticated civilization: Urartu. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the rise and fall of the Kingdom of Van, centered around the majestic fortress of Tushpa. They discuss how the Urartians built an irrigation network that still waters the fields of modern Armenia, the mystery of their cuneiform inscriptions left on mountainsides, and the devastating invasion by the Scythians and Medes that brought their kingdom to an end. Lucas explains how Urartu's…
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