Zorats Karer (Karahunj)
Were the smooth bored holes in dozens of these standing stones deliberate sightlines onto the sky, or features of a burial and settlement site whose astronomical meaning has been read into it after the fact — and how old is the site really?
Middle Bronze Age to Iron Age (mainstream necropolis dating); much older observatory claims (c. 5500 BCE) are disputed and not accepted by most archaeologists · Near Sisian, Syunik Province, ArmeniaAdded July 2026