Urartian water cistern revealed at the site of illegal excavation
The site of illegal excavation in the eastern Turkish province of Tunceli turned out to be an Urartian water cistern. In 2014, people who illegally excavated in the Kalecik Taşı area of Erencik Gorge in Közlüce village in Pülümür district of Tunceli were taken to court. Pülümür Criminal Court of First Instance requested a discovery
Two open-air temple thought to belong to the Urartians discovered in Tunceli
Archaeologists have discovered two separate open-air temple, one in the easternmost and the other in the westernmost part of Tunceli province. The discovery was made by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Serkan Erdoğan, Head of the Department of Protohistory and Prehistoric Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Yozgat Bozok