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 […]
Category: Antiquities
“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 […]
Scythian Ceremonial Swords and the Art of the Van Kingdom (Urartu)
Among the most arresting objects to survive from the Early Iron Age Near East are gold-sheathed ceremonial short swords — akinakai — […]
Hannibal and Artaxias the Great: The Carthaginian General Who Helped Build the “Armenian Carthage”
Few episodes in ancient Armenian history capture the imagination quite like the tradition that Hannibal Barca — Rome’s most feared enemy — […]
The Priestess of the Kingdom of Van: A 9th-Century BC Bronze Figurine in the British Museum
Five angles of one small bronze figure — and what emerges is not an abstract “Near Eastern idol” but a specific individual: […]
The Winged Sun and the Armenian Tiara: Royal Symbolism of the Orontid (Yervanduni) Kingdom of Commagene, 163 BC – 72 AD
Introduction Among the successor states that emerged from the fragmentation of the Achaemenid-derived Orontid (Armenian: Yervanduni), the Kingdom of Commagene occupies a […]
A Bronze Age Vessel from Gardman: Solar Symbolism, the Sun-Cross, and the Sacred Landscape of Ancient Armenia
Article based on the explanations and interpretive observations of Angela Terian, with additional archaeological and historical references. Among the archaeological objects associated […]
A Painted Wall from Ancient Armenia: The New Erebuni Fresco and the Urartian-Armenian Continuity
An unprecedented find on Arin Berd hill On 23 July 2026, the French Embassy in Armenia announced that the joint French-Armenian archaeological […]
The Ughtasar Petroglyphs in the Heart of Yerevan: A Bronze Age Gallery in Tigran Mets Park
Tucked away in the greenery of the 2nd block of Yerevan’s Nor Nork district, in Tigran Mets Park, stands an unassuming cluster […]
The Crescent and the Star: The Journey of an Ancient Near Eastern Symbol — From Mesopotamia and the Armenian Highlands to the Present Day
The combination of a crescent moon and a star is one of the most recognizable symbols of the modern world, closely associated […]