Matt LaCroix suggests Urartian cuneiform inscriptions may not prove Urartians built older Lake Van masonry

What was said

"If you take out the Kanao form, there's no evidence that the Aartians built it at all. None. And so that's where we get into is whether whether or not they just carved kanao form into some of these structures to take credit for them like shaveepe like Ionis."

Discussing sites around Lake Van, Matt LaCroix argues that mainstream attribution of some stonework to the Urartian civilisation relies heavily on the presence of cuneiform inscriptions. He suggests the inscriptions could have been added later to claim ownership of earlier structures, rather than demonstrating Urartians built the underlying masonry.