Gumusdere, Turkey Tourism

On the slopes to the east side of Gümüsdere, a town about 17km/10mi south of Van, lies an open-air workshop used by the stonemasons of Alniunu, an Urartian town whose name can be found inscribed on the harbor mole at Tushpa. Like the Hittite quarries at Yesemek, examples of half-worked stone blocks can be seen. They were clearly intended as the