Guarantors, Not Witnesses: Russian Peacekeepers, the Blockade of Artsakh and the 2023 Exodus
What exactly the Russian contingent undertook to do in the Lachin Corridor, what happened between December 2022 and October 2023, how international […]
If Yerevan Falls Silent: What Would and Would Not Change for the Recognition of the Armenian Genocide
In brief. Suppose the Armenian authorities deliberately take the Genocide off the agenda. The historical fact, the scholarly consensus, the documentary record […]
Why Baku Promotes “Western Azerbaijan”: Historical Propaganda, Coercion and the Risk of Escalation
By Vigen Avetisyan. Data as of October 29, 2026. In brief. As a scholarly concept, the Azerbaijani historical narrative has failed: (read […]
“Ancient Azerbaijan” and “Armenians from India”: Anatomy of a Propaganda Narrative
By Vigen Avetisyan In brief. The claim that present-day Armenia is “historical Azerbaijan” and that Armenians are late settlers from India contradicts […]
Shenatagh: Iron Age Tombs Beneath a Syunik Courtyard — and a Heritage Route from Sisian to Tatev
Archaeology · Travel · Syunik, Armenia — October 28, 2026 A routine groundwork job in the southern Armenian village of Shenatagh has […]
The History of Armenian Coinage and Money: From Ancient Times to the Dram
From weighed silver and Achaemenid-era imports to the kings of Sophene, the coins of Tigranes the Great, the Cilician tram and the […]
Weapons of the Armenian Highland: From the First Swords to the Age of Firearms
Military history series · Armenian Highland, 4th millennium BCE – 18th century CE Introduction: why the Highland matters for the history of […]
Shamiram 2026: A Bronze Age Horse Burial, an Urartian Megalithic Tower and Three Thousand Years of Continuous Life on the Aragats Foothills
How the 2026 Armenian-Italian field season at the Shamiram fortress and necropolis in Aragatsotn adds to the long history of Central Armenia, […]
“If I Hadn’t Acted, We Would All Be Dead”: The Shaki Attack and the Mother Who Fought Back
On October 1, 2026, an armed Azerbaijani soldier entered a family home in Syunik, Armenia. A wounded mother confronted him with a […]
Written in Wool, Carved in Stone: The Khachkar, the Carpet, and the Struggle to Name Armenian Weaving
A 19th-century Baluch rug beside a 13th-century khachkar from Hovhannavank: a shared design logic, and the long record of Armenian carpets being […]