10 World’s Oldest Things From Armenia
Leather Shoe – 5,500 years old A perfectly preserved shoe, 1,000 years older than the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt and 400 years older than Stonehenge in the UK, has been found in a cave in Armenia....
View ArticleArchaeologists Find Traces of Destruction in Ancient Armenian Town
Bone remains from a bronze age archaeological site in Metsamor, Armenia Archaeologists from the University of Warsaw (Institute of Archaeology) discovered evidence of destruction and capture of the...
View Article3,000-year-old Settlement in Eastern Turkey reveals Armenian Traces
Largest archaeological settlement of Tunceli province was discovered bearing Armenian writing on ancient stones The discovery of a large 3000 year old archaeological settlement in Eastern Turkey has...
View ArticleRingstone portrait of Tigranes II of Armenia (95-56 BCE)
The flat oval stone is made from calcified Chalcedony engraved with a portrait of Tigranes II of Armenia in profile to the right. The King is wearing the Armenian tiara ornamented with a star and...
View ArticleTurkish minister calls Ani “Armenian” for first time
Ruins of a thousand year old Armenian church in Ani. Minister of Culture and Tourism of Turkey, Omer Celik, has become the first senior Turkish official to pronounce the word “Armenian” in connection...
View ArticleNewly Discovered Stone Age Tools From Armenia Challange The Out Of Africa...
Innovative Stone Age tools have been developed by people inhabiting the Armenia Highland and — contrary to widely held views — not just invented in Africa, a study published Thursday found. Research...
View ArticleEtruscan origins study reveals migration from Armenian Highlands
Etruscan migration from the Armenian Highland Etruria was a region located in present day Central Italy that gave birth to one of the first civilizations in Europe. The origin of the Etruscan...
View ArticleNew Study (BBC): Ancient Tribes From Armenian Highlands and North Eurasia...
Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans Findings based on analysis of genomes from ancient Europeans (Nature journal reports) revealed that modern European...
View Article“Drone” Archaeology captures Bronze Age Armenia
A Purdue University archaeologist is utilizing drone technology to capture details and data from Bronze Age field sites in Armenia. “Drones are a new tool in archaeologists’ toolkits,” said Ian...
View ArticleAncient Armenian City Reveals New Secrets
Hidden underground passageways of Ani. Turkish archaeologists have recently published discoveries made underneath the ancient Armenian capital city of Ani. Receding water has revealed an opening to a...
View ArticleYerevan turns 2799, Congratulation!
Yerevan is the capital and the largest city in the Republic of Armenia and one of the world’s oldest continuously inhabited cities. Today marks the 2799th anniversary of the foundation of the capital...
View ArticleThe Milk Revolution: How people from the Armenian Plateau brought milk to Europe
The Armenian Highlands was an important center of early human technological and agricultural inventions. Situated at the crossroads between Europe, Middle East and Asia it served as a geographic...
View ArticleA New Study Reveals 8000 Years of Genetic Continuity in Armenia
That the Armenians are an indigenous people of the Armenian Highlands has already been well established by prominent studies in the field of genetics. Haber et. al. (2015) for example could not find...
View ArticleAncient Egyptians were closer to Armenians than to Africans; a new genetics...
A recent study sheds light on the age old question “who were the ancient Egyptians?” A team of international scientists from the University of Tuebingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of...
View ArticleIron age Armenian antiques found by Hungarian police in a truck
Hungarian police released footage of ancient artifacts smuggled last year by a Turkish truck driver under way to Lithuania. The trove included ancient Sumerian, Persian, Assyrian and most of all...
View ArticleFrom Dragon Stones to Kings Bones – 9 Recent Archaeological Discoveries Made...
The abundance of ancient ruins, monuments and archaeological sites, have earned Armenia the title of: “an open air museum”. While this is certainly true, everything known of ancient Armenia to date is...
View ArticleDNA from a 7 thousand year old tooth found in a Cave in Artsakh perfectly...
Scholars from Britain, US, Denmark and Armenia led by Prof. Levon Yepiskoposyan have been examining prehistoric caves near the village of Azokh in Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) and found unique artifacts...
View ArticleArmenia – The Cradle of Wine
Wine is one of the most popular alcoholic beverages in the world and has a fascinating ancient history that goes back to the dawn of civilization some 10,000 years ago. Once considered the beverage of...
View ArticleSUPPORT the Paleontological Cave Exploration in Artsakh!
A very exciting new paleontological exploration of a prehistoric Cave in Artsakh (Nagorno Karabakh) is in need of our support. Sc.D., Prof. Levon Yepiskoposyan, head of Ethnogenomics laboratory...
View ArticleThe Last King of Babylon – The Armenian Rebel Arakha
The last independent king of Babylon was an Armenian by the name of Arakha also known as Nebuchadnezzar IV. After the Achaemenid conquest of Babylon in 539 BC, several attempts were made by the...
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