Mystery of Armenia's Giant 6,000-Year-old 'Dragon Stones' is Finally Solved

Dragon stones of Armenia – Credits: Armen Manukov (left) and Sonashen (right) CC BY-SA 3.0

By Andy Corbley -Feb 19, 2026

For the first time in the country’s history, a detailed analysis of Armenia’s “dragon stones” has been conducted with the hope of solving the mystery of these large Neolithic monuments.

Raised between 4200 and 4000 BCE, in concert roughly with the megaliths of Stonehenge, Armenia’s vishaps, meaning dragons, weigh between 3 and 8 tons, and stretch across a highland region bearing either the carved imagery of a fish or a stretched cowhide.

Dozens have been found and identified, and their ubiquity along with their seeming randomness have defeated previous attempts to define their role in ancient Armenian society.

A new survey and analysis conducted by the Yerevan State University Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography has cracked the code somewhat, even if it involved being stumped once or twice along the way.

Concentrated among the mountainous regions in the Caucasian country’s western reaches, 43 sit among the Geghema Mountains, 36 are found on the slopes of Mount Aragats, and 17 among the Vardenis Mountains. Others have been found beyond this north-south axis, but the vishap builders seemed to primarily work in these areas.

More:
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/mystery-of-armenias-6000-year-old-dragon-stones-believed-solved/

Images from a useful article on Vishaps in Wikipedia







Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishapakar

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Let’s talk about the Dragon Stones
Admin Posted onJuly 16, 2019





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