Epress.am News from Armenia
Biological Sciences candidate Vachagan Vahradyan, speaking to journalists today, said that interesting findings have come about as a result of studying Karahundj (also known as Zorakarer), an ancient monument located in Armenia’s Sisian province (marz) and often compared to Stonehenge.
Vahradyan said the upright stones are lined much in the same way as the Swan constellation stars. The scientist overlaid this constellation on that area on the map where the monument lies and noticed a surprising fact: the villages in the are have the same geographical position as the Swan constellation stars and the Karahundj stones.
These findings Vahradyan presented to University of Oxford professors. The findings stirred much interest, and a group of University of Oxford scientists will be coming to Armenia this week and will conduct a joint investigation with Armenian scientists.
Vahradyan also documented and sent to the British team the similarities he found between Armenia’s Karahundj and England’s Stonehenge. The structural and nominal similarities, for instance, are obvious.
In the Armenian scientist’s opinion, Karahundj is older than Stonehenge. However, he doesn’t agree with other Armenian scientists who state that Karahundj is 3,900 years old. Vahradyan said it’s quite possible that Karahundj is about 7,500 years old.