5000 yr-old Cyclopean #Megalithic Platform at Urartian Fortress | Van, #Turkey | #Megalithomania
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A gigantic megalithic platform is located next to Van Castle in Turkey and may date to five thousand years ago. In the Urartian era, it was built upon and developed into the huge site during the 7th Century BC that we see today. Inscriptions on two of the blocks are Urartian script. However, no one knows who built the gigantic cyclopean construction. It resembles other cyclopean walls that we see at Meydan Kalesi and Alaca Höyük in Turkey, and also sites in Peru, Italy, Greece and Baalbek in Lebanon. Located next to it are rock-cut hypogeum steps and other features that show a high level of stone-working skill. In tradition, this is the area of the ‘Garden of Eden’ and giants are usually thought to be the builders. Nearby are other remarkable sites including Çavuştepe which has precision stonework, like that found at Puma Punku in Bolivia, which we will feature in an upcoming video.