Antiquities

Richard Watson about Ancient Armenia, New York, 1837

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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…

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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…

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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…

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“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.…

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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…

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An Armenian Bride from Kharberd: A Photograph from the Danish National Archives

A portrait from the Armenian highlands Two women stand before a painted studio backdrop of…

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