The popular scientific geographical magazine National Geographic has included the Karahunj megalithic complex, which is called the "Armenian Stonehenge", in the list of the world's oldest observatories.
“Sirius and Orion shine above the illuminated moonstones of the mysterious Karahunj. It consists of hundreds of vertical stones in no particular order,”the newspaper wrote.
Karahunj or Zorats Karer (Mighty Stones) is located three thousand miles east of the Portuguese Cromlech, near Sisian in southern Armenia and consists of 223 large vertical stones, weighing up to 10 tons.
On the territory of the complex, on an area of 25 hectares, according to a certain system, there are several huge triangular stones, in which special holes are made for a telescope.
Some archaeological scientists date the creation of Karahunj to the end of the third millennium BC, but other experts believe that the complex is much older and was founded in the fifth millennium.
In relation to this mysterious structure of stones, academician Paris Heruni in the 90s of the last century put forward a sensational hypothesis, calling it the most ancient astronomical observatory of all discovered at that time.
