A name from the world's oldest archives Long before Urartu, long before "Armenia" appears in any inscription, Sumerian and Akkadian…
For nearly eight centuries, the cathedral of Gandzasar stood on its hilltop above the Khachen river valley, its carved dome…
How a humble noise-making instrument may connect Hattian metalworkers, Hurrian myth-singers, Egyptian priestesses of Isis, and the bronze-working culture of…
Image Source: 301.am For years, Ankara and Baku publicly denied that Syrian fighters had any role in Azerbaijan's 2020 offensive…
Long before Armenia's kings raised churches over pagan sanctuaries, before Hellenism folded Vahagn into Herakles and Anahit into Artemis, the…
Introduction Long before Urartian kings inscribed their names in cuneiform on the cliffs of Van, and long before Armenian stonemasons…
A Coalition Beneath the Mountain Among the oracles of judgment collected in the Book of Jeremiah, one verse names a…
If you have ever climbed the Cascade in Yerevan and looked up at the tall, tapering stele crowned with stone…
On a rocky promontory above the southwestern shore of Lake Sevan, at an elevation of nearly 1,900 meters, stands one…
Among the most arresting objects to survive from the Early Iron Age Near East are gold-sheathed ceremonial short swords —…