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Other Archaeological Sites / The Neolithic of the Levant (500 Page Book Online) McDonald Ancient Near East Book Auction Ad Infinitum Urartu (Greek Ararat)
Centered in the mountainous region southeast of the Black Sea and southwest Map centered on Mount Ararat in northeastern Turkey
The Ancient Civilization of Urartu For three centuries Urartu was a formidable rival to Assyria. Though twice defeated by the Assyrians the Urartians several times prevailed in this contest and indeed --- though only by a few decades --- outlasted their rivals. But posterity dealt harhly with the memory of Urartu. The name was preserved in the Old Testament in the corrupted form Ararat .....
And the ark rested in the seventh month on the seventeenth Genesis 8:4 (King James Version) / [Listen Using Real Player]
Ararat: sacred land or high land; the name of a country on one of the mountains of which the ark rested after the Biblical Flood subsided. The mountains mentioned were probably the Kurdish range of South Armenia. The word is rendered Armenia in the Authorized Version but in the Revised Version Land of Ararat. In Jeremiah 51:27 the name denotes the central or southern portion of Armenia. It is however generally applied to a high and almost inaccessible mountain which rises majestically from the plain of the Araxes (Aras River). This part of Armenia was inhabited by a people who spoke a language unlike any other now known though it may have been related to the modern Georgian. About 900 BC they borrowed the cuneiform characters of Nineveh and from this time we have inscriptions of a line of kings who at times contended with Assyria. At the close of the seventh century BC the kingdom of Ararat came to an end and the country was occupied by a people who are ancestors of the present day Armenians ...... Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (Hypertext Webster Gateway) Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (Bible Study Tools Net) Other Online Links
The Urartu Civilization (Burak Sansal) URARTU: LOST KINGDOM OF VAN (Troy Bishop) The History of the Ancient Near East Electronic Compendium |
