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🏛️ Kars Museum and Ani: From Small Objects to an Expansive City Combining Kars Museum with Ani changes how you look at archaeology. In the museum, tools, coins and jewellery introduce the region; at Ani, streets and religious and defensive buildings reveal life in a city on trade routes. The...

Ani's walls and gateways frame a wide archaeological landscape. Ani lies about 42 kilometres from Kars beside the village of Ani, also known as Ocaklı, on a plateau overlooking the Arpaçay gorge at the Armenian border. Its scale becomes clear on foot: walls, religious monuments and former urban...