From Akroinon to Afyonkarahisar: The Ruined Armenian Church and the Erasure of a 3,000-Year-Old Christian Presence
A case study in the systematic destruction of Armenian heritage in Turkey and Azerbaijan The Image: A Church Beneath a Rock The […]
Trampling Through the Centuries: How Baku-Accredited Diplomats “Toured” Gandzasar
On September 11–12, 2026, around 150 diplomats from 58 countries accredited in Baku took part in an organized tour of the territories […]
Subartu: The Forgotten Northern Deep of Armenian History
A name from the world’s oldest archives Long before Urartu, long before “Armenia” appears in any inscription, Sumerian and Akkadian scribes were […]
Gandzasar: A Monastery “Restored” Beyond Recognition
For nearly eight centuries, the cathedral of Gandzasar stood on its hilltop above the Khachen river valley, its carved dome visible for […]
Before the Sistrum: Tracing a Bronze Age Rattle from Anatolia to Ararat
How a humble noise-making instrument may connect Hattian metalworkers, Hurrian myth-singers, Egyptian priestesses of Isis, and the bronze-working culture of the Kingdom […]
The Turkish Pipeline: How Syrian Fighters Were Recruited, Moved and Deployed Against Armenian Forces in the 2020 Artsakh War
For years, Ankara and Baku publicly denied that Syrian fighters had any role in Azerbaijan’s 2020 offensive against Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh). Court records […]
Tork Angegh: Storm, Stone, and the Oldest Face of the Armenian Pantheon
Long before Armenia’s kings raised churches over pagan sanctuaries, before Hellenism folded Vahagn into Herakles and Anahit into Artemis, the Armenian Highland […]
The Goat on the Armenian Highland: A Symbol Older Than Writing
Introduction Long before Urartian kings inscribed their names in cuneiform on the cliffs of Van, and long before Armenian stonemasons carved crosses […]
“Summon Against Her the Kingdoms of Ararat”: Urartu-Armenia in the Prophecy Against Babylon
A Coalition Beneath the Mountain Among the oracles of judgment collected in the Book of Jeremiah, one verse names a highland kingdom […]
The Tower That Never Left Us: From the Susi Shrine of Ancient Van to the Obelisk Above the Yerevan Cascade
If you have ever climbed the Cascade in Yerevan and looked up at the tall, tapering stele crowned with stone “wings” at […]