Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Mannaea" in English language version.
There are a number of unexcavated tells, or mounds, on the plain of Mahābād in this part of the Azerbaijan region. The region was the centre of the Mannaeans, who flourished in the early 1st millennium BC.
Later in the Bronze Age (2200–1600 BCE), the Trialeti-Vanadzor culture arose in Armenia. This may have been the first Indo-European culture and possibly the origin of what would become Armenian culture.
