This book is dedicated to the Caucasus, a region that was home to a number of ancient cultures that flourished. Its authors, Charles Burney and Professor David Lang, consistently talk about the archeology and art, nature and architecture, literature and science of the Christian civilizations of Eastern Turkey, Armenia and Georgia. They pay great attention to the history of the kingdom of Urartu, a rival of Assyria, tracing it from one king to another, analyzing materials obtained in numerous expeditions, setting themselves the goal of presenting to the general reader the relatively little-known stages of development of the inhabitants of the Anatolian Plateau.