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Karahunj
(Zorats Karer) Photo-Story, 2011 series
by Photo-Week.net
Many of
stones of Karahunj have smooth
angled holes of 4 to 5cm in diameter, the angles of the
holes being directed at different points on the horizon
and outer space....
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Karahunj (aka Zorats Karer) photo-story 2011
Karahunj, Zorakarer (Zorats Karer,
Armenian Զորաց Քարեր) is
3, 500 years older than England’s Stonehenge and 3, 000
years older than the Egyptian pyramids. The total area
of the observatory is 7 hectares...
The age of
Carahunge has been estimated to be 7500 years or older (VI
millennium BC). This was accurately ascertained by
taking readings of the motion of the Sun, Moon and stars,
using four independent astronomical methods based on the
laws of the changes of the Earth’s axis precession and
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Garni Pagan Temple, Armenia
Garni
pagan temple is on
the road to Geghard and both can be
comfortably seen on the same day. Halfway to
Garni however, take a few minutes to look at
the Charents Arch. The arch itself is not
what you stop for, but for the great view of
Ararat which it frames on a clear day. Truly
a Kodak moment. When you get to Garni, it
will remind you of a somewhat plain
Parthenon. It was built in the first century A.D.
by the Armenian King Tiridates with the
money he received after visiting Emperor
Nero in Rome. The temple was destroyed in
1679 in an earthquake, but was reconstructed
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