The Last Days of Urartu's Rule, Historical Knowledge and Archaeological Evidenc

The last years of Urartu's rule due to the unrest in the middle of the 7th century BC. Despite the existence of many works and deposits from that period, it has some ambiguities and in some cases it has caused disagreements between researchers in this field. Cimmerians due to lack of resources or other social problems, in the late 8th and early 7th century BC. From the Caucasus and the north of the Black Sea to the south, followed by the Scythians, who ruled the Caucasus, entered the Anatolian plateau. Culturally and linguistically, they are the same race as Iranians. The arrival of these tribes changed the balance of power in the seventh century BC. broke up and finally in this century the collapse of great governments such as Urartu and Assyria and the emergence of the Medes as a new power in Western Asia occurred. Due to the existence of writing and access to the Urartu and Assyrian inscriptions, we have valuable information until the middle of this century, but this information in the Urartu area from 640 BC. is interrupted, the only contemporary source is the Assyrian inscriptions, which were also written for a short time, around 612 BC. It disappears. The Babylonian government is the only government that owns script, language, and inscriptions close to that era, so part of the information of the period that is in the dark is illuminated by the Babylonian inscriptions. In this research, by examining the sources of this period using the historical, analytical and descriptive method, the final years of Urartu were carefully examined and by stating the documents and signs in the texts, this hypothesis has been proposed that it seems that ethnic groups The Medes ended the rule of Urartu as well as Assyria.