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

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Vigen Avetisyan

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

Abandoned by an Ally: The French Armenian Legion in Cilicia and the Road to the Smyrna Catastrophe

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How a promise made to genocide survivors was traded away for peace with Ankara — and how the same pattern…

The Vilgort Cup: A Silver Masterpiece of Cilician Armenia (c. 1150–1159 A.D.)

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A Fragment That Traveled Across Continents The gilt-silver medallion shown above — two richly dressed figures flanked by lions, hares,…

Hannibal and Artaxias the Great: The Carthaginian General Who Helped Build the “Armenian Carthage”

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Few episodes in ancient Armenian history capture the imagination quite like the tradition that Hannibal Barca — Rome's most feared…

The Priestess of the Kingdom of Van: A 9th-Century BC Bronze Figurine in the British Museum

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Five angles of one small bronze figure — and what emerges is not an abstract "Near Eastern idol" but a…

The Winged Sun and the Armenian Tiara: Royal Symbolism of the Orontid (Yervanduni) Kingdom of Commagene, 163 BC – 72 AD

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Introduction Among the successor states that emerged from the fragmentation of the Achaemenid-derived Orontid (Armenian: Yervanduni), the Kingdom of Commagene…

A Bronze Age Vessel from Gardman: Solar Symbolism, the Sun-Cross, and the Sacred Landscape of Ancient Armenia

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Article based on the explanations and interpretive observations of Angela Terian, with additional archaeological and historical references. Among the archaeological…

Rewriting the Caucasus: A Documented Look at Azerbaijan’s Historical Revisionism Regarding Armenia

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Lenin: Soviet nationalities policy, Azerbaijan SSR founded 1920, Stalin: Constitution and census fix the ethnonym "Azerbaijani", Heydar Aliyev: Directed historians…

A Painted Wall from Ancient Armenia: The New Erebuni Fresco and the Urartian-Armenian Continuity

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An unprecedented find on Arin Berd hill On 23 July 2026, the French Embassy in Armenia announced that the joint…

The Date Khorenatsi Gave for Armenia’s Founding — Now Backed by Genetics

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For more than fifteen centuries, one line from Movses Khorenatsi's History of the Armenians has been treated by most scholars…