UNDER CONSTRUCTION

   Karchaghbyur has petroglyphs  in the gorge of Karchaghbyur river; SE is Berdidash cyclopean fort with two Christianized pagan shrines; 2 km W are BA burials. Beginning in 1975, archaeologists have been excavating a Persian and Hellenistic period walled settlement on a promontory jutting out into the lake. The site  was  abandoned

   After 1 km, take  the right  fork  which winds up into a narrow spine of rock, with khachkars, the road leading S to Lchavan (till 1967 Yarpuzlu, Bronze Age tombs, church of 13-14th c., khachkars).

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

at the end of the 1st century BC, with mass burials of that period.