AniLegend A medieval Armenian capital standing empty on the Turkish side of a closed border. Between 961 and 1045 it was the seat of the Bagratuni kingdom and possibly held around 100,000 people, though scholars argue that figure is too... Open it on the map · Read the story
The Ararat anomalyLegend Turkey’s highest mountain, 5,137 metres of ice, and the place Genesis names as the ark’s landing. Expeditions have gone up since the 1800s, and aerial photographs from the 1940s and 50s showing a dark shape in the ice on the... Open it on the map · Read the story
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