Subartu: The Forgotten Northern Deep of Armenian History

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Vigen Avetisyan

A name from the world's oldest archives Long before Urartu, long before "Armenia" appears in any inscription, Sumerian and Akkadian…

Gandzasar: A Monastery “Restored” Beyond Recognition

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For nearly eight centuries, the cathedral of Gandzasar stood on its hilltop above the Khachen river valley, its carved dome…

Before the Sistrum: Tracing a Bronze Age Rattle from Anatolia to Ararat

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How a humble noise-making instrument may connect Hattian metalworkers, Hurrian myth-singers, Egyptian priestesses of Isis, and the bronze-working culture of…

The Turkish Pipeline: How Syrian Fighters Were Recruited, Moved and Deployed Against Armenian Forces in the 2020 Artsakh War

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Image Source: 301.am For years, Ankara and Baku publicly denied that Syrian fighters had any role in Azerbaijan's 2020 offensive…

Tork Angegh: Storm, Stone, and the Oldest Face of the Armenian Pantheon

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Long before Armenia's kings raised churches over pagan sanctuaries, before Hellenism folded Vahagn into Herakles and Anahit into Artemis, the…

The Goat on the Armenian Highland: A Symbol Older Than Writing

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Introduction Long before Urartian kings inscribed their names in cuneiform on the cliffs of Van, and long before Armenian stonemasons…

“Summon Against Her the Kingdoms of Ararat”: Urartu-Armenia in the Prophecy Against Babylon

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A Coalition Beneath the Mountain Among the oracles of judgment collected in the Book of Jeremiah, one verse names a…

The Tower That Never Left Us: From the Susi Shrine of Ancient Van to the Obelisk Above the Yerevan Cascade

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If you have ever climbed the Cascade in Yerevan and looked up at the tall, tapering stele crowned with stone…

Hayravank Monastery: The “Father Monastery” of Lake Sevan and the Legend of the Doves

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On a rocky promontory above the southwestern shore of Lake Sevan, at an elevation of nearly 1,900 meters, stands one…

Scythian Ceremonial Swords and the Art of the Van Kingdom (Urartu)

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Among the most arresting objects to survive from the Early Iron Age Near East are gold-sheathed ceremonial short swords —…