Episode 9.1 - Argishti of Urartu

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Argishti ruled the ancient kingdom of Urartu, located in today's Armenia and Eastern Turkey. During Argishti's reign in the 8th century BC, Urartu held sway over its powerful neighbor, the Neo-Assyrian Empire

Sources

  • M. Chahin, The Kingdom of Armenia

  • Paul E. Zimansky, The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization, “Ecology and Empire: The Structure of the Urartian State”

  • Paul E. Zimansky, Ancient Anatolia, 10,000 - 323 B.C., Sharon E. Steadman and Gregory McMahon, Eds.

  • Boris Piotrovsky, Urartu

  • R.D. Barnett, The Cambridge Ancient History, Ch. 8, Urartu

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