Urartu
Urartu was an ancient
kingdom in the mountainous region north of
Mesopotamia. The people were related to the
Hurrians and
Hittites. The existence of the country dates from around 1000 BC, first as a group of emirates but forming a unified kingdom by 860 BC. It
was defeated by the
Scythians in 585 BC. Tushpa, the capital of the kingdom, was located at
Van on the shore of
Lake Van. They were experts in stone architecture and metal industry. They used Assyrian
Cuneiform Script to write in their
Indo-European language.
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