Ancient Urban Code creates a dialogue between one of Armenia’s most enigmatic ancient landscapes and the spatial logic of the contemporary city. At the center of the composition stands a stone inspired by Karahunj, the prehistoric archaeological site in Armenia known for its monumental standing stones, some pierced by distinctive circular openings. Set against an expansive Armenian landscape, the stone carries the physical presence of deep time — weathered, monumental, and marked by traces that precede the modern city by millennia. Yet across its ancient surface, another system appears: a contemporary urban master plan. Fine networks of streets, intersections, routes, and spatial connections spread over the stone like an encoded inscription. The geometry of the modern city seems not simply imposed on the ancient object, but discovered within it—as though patterns of human settlement and spatial organization belonged to a much longer continuum. The characteristic circular opening becomes a powerful point of connection. Through it, the landscape remains visible, linking stone, territory, and horizon while suggesting a passage between different perceptions of space and time. By bringing Karahunj and the urban master plan into the same visual field, Vahagn Bagoyan connects two radically distant forms of human spatial thinking: the marking of territory in the ancient world and the complex organization of contemporary urban space. In Ancient Urban Code, the city becomes an archaeological possibility. The master plan appears as a code inscribed across time — suggesting that the human impulse to organize, connect, and give meaning to space is far older than the modern metropolis itself.