Archaeologists Just Mapped A Bronze Age Megafortress In Georgia

Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica
Thu, 01/09/2025 - 5:00am

A sprawling 3,500-year-old fortress offers tantalizing clues about a culture that once dotted the southern Caucasus mountains with similar walled communities. Archaeologists recently used a drone to map a sprawling 3,500-year-old fortress in the Caucasus Mountains of southern Georgia. The detailed aerial map offers some tantalizing clues about the ancient culture whose people built hundreds of similar fortresses in a mountainous region that spans the modern countries of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Turkey.

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Archaeologists Just Mapped A Bronze Age Megafortress In Georgia

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