title: Karashamb
text: # Karashamb
  
  40°24′18″N 44°34′35″E﻿ / ﻿40.40500°N 44.57639°E﻿ / 40.40500; 44.57639
  
  Karashamb (Armenian: Քարաշամբ, also Romanized as K’arashamb and Qarashamb) is a village in the Kotayk Province of Armenia.
  
  Karashamb is the site of a major archaeological excavation of a Bronze Age cemetery with a number of barrows. The richest was a "royal" sepulchre where a silver cup, now one of the treasures of the National Museum, was discovered.
  
  