Surprisingly, today the most powerful tool of propaganda is cinematography. Promotion of an idea, be it false or true, good or evil, is very easy, and that easiness impresses and frightens everyone, including historians and people familiar with history. That is the reason for the high value of films made by specialists to tell information …
Armenians have been worshiping physical strength from ancient times. Vahagn, god of fire and war of Armenian mythology, possessed enormous power both physically and spiritually. Vahagn fought and conquered dragons, hence his title Vishabakagh, “dragon reaper”, where dragons in Armenian lore are identified as “Vishaps”. Many of Vahagn’s acts resemble the ones of Heracles. Hayk …
Falsification of Armenia’s history isn’t something new. In different times for different reasons it has been falsified, but lately the range of the alteration of facts has quite expanded. The process of falsification of Armenian historical facts has been commenced by United Kingdom which had had rich experience with it in regard to its colonies. …
In the video below the author, candidate of historical sciences Artak Movsisyan tells about the period of the history of Armenia covering the coming to power of Parthian dynasty Arshakuni as well as its fall. Particular attention is given to the period that preceded the Avarayr battle. According to the author, the study of history …
The area of the territory under rule of the King of Armenian Kingdom Tigranes the Great exceeded three million square kilometers. For comparison, the territory of Soviet Armenia with its 30,000 square kilometers was only 1% of that vast territory. Together with Artsakh the area of modern Armenia is estimated to be about 42 thousand …
Mythology of Armenian tribes and later the Armenian nation itself represents pantheons belonging to different periods of history of Armenia. Originally Urartian in nature, the pantheon was similar to religions of Near East’s states. There are signs which indicate that the ancient Armenians were initially nature worshipers and that this faith in time was transformed …
Armenia has been never conquered by Alexander the Great and has never been a part of his empire. Tran, a historian at the University of Cambridge, in his study of the conquests of Alexander noted: “Alexander the Great appointed Mithrenes as the satrap (the governor of provinces of the ancient Median and Achaemenid Empires and …
Armenian geologist Suren Ayvazyan was certain that United Kingdom owed Armenia billion in unknown currency. According to some information and him particularly, in 1378 the king of Armenian Kingdom Cilicia Leo V (Levon V, occasionally Levon VI) transferred the treasury of the kingdom to the King of England Edward III for safekeeping. Two monarchs signed …
According to the map of Athanasius Kircher (sometimes erroneously spelled Kirchner) from the 1675 book “Noah’s Ark“, the Heaven was located near Ararat mount and the Armenian Upland, between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates. Armenia was considered to be the whereabouts of the Paradise. Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) was a German Jesuit scholar, erudite, philosopher, mathematician, …
Portuguese cartographer Fernão Vaz Dourado’s map below depicts Lesser Armenia (Փոքր Հայք) and Greater Armenia (Մեծ Հայք). The main river tributaries extend through the Black and Caspian Seas, occupying territories that are now known as Georgia, Azerbaijan and most of eastern Turkey, including Mount Ararat. The map belongs to the third period of the old …
Engraving of 1749 by John Hinton. This picture was published in an English magazine. Here Armenia is represented as the homeland of mankind after the great flood. In the engraved picture the Tower of Babel is positioned on the left with workers erecting ramps. The genealogical tree of Noah along with the names of different …
Ancient Greeks considered the Armenian Highlands as the heart of the world. According to their records, the plateau was situated south and in the middle of Black and Caspian Seas, as well as in between of the Mediterranean Basin and the Persian Gulf. Armenian Highlands was connected to the Black Sea via the Akampsis river …
On 9 May Victory Day is celebrated in former republics of Soviet Union and some European countries. But in Armenia it is not only the day of commemoration of the victory of the Soviet Union over Nazi Germany, but also the liberation of the city of Shusha in Nagorno-Karabakh during Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Seizure of the …
In 1918 member of the Turkish State Council, lawyer and founder of the Anglophile Association Said Molla started to publish the “Turkish Istanbul” newspaper. On March 25, 1919 the newspaper published a letter from the central cabinet of the party “Unity and Progress” entitled “Letter with instructions to the Special Committee”. It concerned the Armenian …