Ancient megalithic complex Zorats-Karer
Zorats-Karer
If scientific hypotheses, ancient civilizations and mysterious places are your element, then you simply need to visit the south of Armenia in the Syunik region, near the city of Sisian. And also for those who are concerned with the issue of completely rebooting their own personality or creating a better version of themselves. Zorats Karer is a “place of power.” Our ancestors, as you know, were good at calculating the right places for buildings with special purposes. How is another question. But the facts speak for themselves. Incredible energy coming from all sides fills everyone who comes here with a colossal charge of strength and new sensations, and the surrounding mountains amaze the imagination. There are often cases when life completely changed after a visit to the “singing stones”.
No one can say exactly when this megalithic complex arose. According to various estimates, from 5 to 7.5 thousand years ago. Its names are translated differently: Zorats Karer - “mighty stones”, “stones of strength” or “stone army”, locals call it “Standing Stones” or “Protruding Stones”. But the name Karahunj, i.e. “sounding, talking stones”, was given to him in 1994 by academician, radio physicist and radio astronomer Paris Geruni.
This landmark of Armenia consists of 223 stones, 80 of which have round holes of the same size, created by human hands. When the wind blows, these stones begin to produce such unusual natural “arias” that it’s time to write them down. However, it is unlikely that people did such a titanic work just to create a “stone choir”.
Geruni suggested that Karahunj is nothing more than the oldest observatory in the world. The Royal Geographical Society of Great Britain together with the University of Oxford came to the same conclusion. In general, many scientists agree that the Armenian Karahunge and the English Stonehenge are close relatives. As Armenians joke, Stonehenge was built by the first Armenian emigrants.
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