© Clemens Schmillen · CC BY-SA 4.0© Clemens Schmillen · CC BY-SA 4.0© Clemens Schmillen · CC BY-SA 4.0The Van Museum or Urartu Museum is a museum located in the city of Van in eastern Turkey. It showcases on 13,000 m2 a large archaeological and ethnographic record of human life and cultural development in the lake Van region from eastern Anatolia’s Stone Age to the present. The main focus of the museum is on the Urartian period, about 2800-2600 years ago. Of particular interest are the Hakkari kurgan stelae.
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© Bjørn Christian Tørrissen · CC BY-SA 3.0✓ Checked · Castle · 0.3 KMVan Kalesi
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