A team of archaeologists has discovered a large number of burial chambers than 2,800 years old in the historic area of the city of Van in southeastern Turkey.
Turkish archaeologists have found graves in large ceramic vessels, known as pithos, 2,800 years old, as part of a laborious aimed to discover the secrets of the kingdom of Urartu, who ruled Turkey since the mid-ninth century BC to defeat work hands of the Medes in the early sixth century BC, reports' The Daily Mail '. The finding has been made in the
Turkish city of Van, the capital of the ancient kingdom.
Every summer, a group of about 50 archaeologists involved in an annual excavation under the supervision of Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism taking place in the historic area of the fortress of Van in an attempt to discover the treasures of the kingdom of Urartu which were buried thousands of years ago. Currently, the team is working on top of the fort.
"Our work is aimed at repairing and protecting the ancient city of Van. We are carrying out work to protect the areas in which we have been working previous years," says Erkan Konyár researcher at the University of Istanbul.
Just 38 kilometers from the place of discovery are also carrying out excavation work at the castle of Urartu, which this year the walls were discovered. "This overly impressed, as though the walls witnessed great earthquakes, architecture remained fairly robust and unchanged," has Isikli Mehmet, head of the excavation.
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