A short movie dedicated to do-it-yourself tourists in Armenia presenting the scouting of known and unknown heritage sites in Ararat and Vayots Dzor. Medieval archaeologists of University of Florence (Italy) are toured by fellow archaeologists of Yerevan State University (Armenia). filmed and directed by artist and designer Riccardo Polveroni (www.rplg.eu) original armenian music (see credits) funded by EU - ENPI - Liaisons for Growth
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Archaeology the UCLA Way The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA enjoys the many ancient sites in Armenia. Enjoy! by Patty Civalleri, www.1Take.com
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Featuring a never-seen-before satellite image of a vandalized medieval cemetery at the Iranian-Azerbaijani border, "The New Tears of Araxes," a five-minute film, tells the tragic story of thousands of ancient Armenian headstones flattened to the ground by the Azerbaijani authorities in Djulfa or Julfa (Jugha in Armenian), Nakhichevan. On December 15, 2005, eyewitnesses across the River Araxes videotaped Azeri soldiers destroying Armenian burial monuments - khachkars (cross stones) - some as old as 1500 years. Azerbaijani officials denied the vandalism, but banned European Parliament members from visiting the site in March of 2006. Only a few outside news sources tried to publicize the tragedy. "The New Tears of Araxes" is written by Sarah Pickman, a University of Chicago student, who was the only American reporter to cover the tragedy when she interned for Archaeology Magazine. Producer and narrator Simon Maghakyan, who is among America's top 20 college students according to USA TODAY (April 24, 2006), hopes the film will break a year of ignorance and silence. When asked why others should care, Maghakyan quotes Martin Luther King Jr. as saying, "Injustice anywhere is threat to justice everywhere." Music by Djivan Gasparian (Gladiator, The Passion of the Christ, Munich, Syriana); Digital sound track production by Transtar Entertainment Group; Photographs by Research on Armenian Architecture, and Argam Ayvazian; Footage of 2005 destruction by Tabriz's Armenian Church, Iran ...
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Read the entire Wall Street Journal story at: on.wsj.com Here is a portion: "Scientists have discovered the world's oldest known winery, secreted amid dozens of prehistoric graves in a cavern in Armenia, an international research team said Tuesday. Outside a mountain village still known for its wine-making skill, archaeologists unearthed a large vat set in a platform for treading grapes, along with the well-preserved remains of crushed grapes, seeds and vine leaves, dating to about 6100 years ago—a thousand years older than other comparable finds."
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n this video you can see not only the oldest shoe in the world found in Armenia and made 5500 years ago, but also the cave in the central Armenia where the shoe is found. Dr. Ron Pinhasi from the Department of Archeology at the University College Cork in Ireland tells about the oldest shoe in the world found in a large cave near the village of Areni. The region is known for its great red wines as well. The Armenian shoe is dated between 3600-3400 BC. Dr. Pinhasi says what is interesting is that the shoe is made of leather, and it's a processed leather, which tells about a developed culture in Armenia 5000 years ago. We are talking about a time frame that is nearly 1000 years older than the Egyptian pyramids. This cave is special in Armenia because by its geographical location it's a crossroad between Africa, Asia and Europe. "All of Armenia is very rich for archaeologists, for any period from pre-history to the Christianity and the like. At the same time Armenia is not excavated as much as the other regions of the world and therefore, there is a lot of unknown and mysterious elements to it," says Dr. Pinhasi who is specializing in prehistoric archaeology. Speaking of this oldest shoe in the world, he says their group was one of the first to make the excavations in the region and were pretty astonished what they were about to meet around the surface. One thing is for sure. Armenia now can brace to host more archaeologists and will add the cave, where the oldest shoe was ...
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Leading this edition of UCLA News Week, scholar Gregory Areshian discusses his team's discovery in an Armenian cave of the oldest complete wine production site. And a UCLA historian talks about shaping the slave narrative at the newly opened President's House Memorial in Philadelphia. ucla.in
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University of Chicago Archaeologist Hannah Chazin examines an Obsidian Flake found during a dig by Project ArAGATS in Aragotsotn Marz, Armenia, and explains how bronze age obsidian tools were formed.
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QUBA MASS GRAVE SITE. In the spring of 2007 a mass grave containing at least 200 skeletons was found on the edge of Quba City during construction at the soccer stadium site. Archealogists from Baku excavated the site and constructed a temporary shelter to protect the skeletons and excavations. Plans are being to developed to build a museum complex orund the mass grave to memorialize the loss. Official English language sign posted infront of mass-grave(March 2009). 1.ON 1 April, 2007 a mass grave was opened in Guba while doing ground works. 2.As a result of the primary research carried out by the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan from 8 to 11 April 2007 it has been revealed that the site is a burial place of the local innocent civilians massacred by the Armenians in 1918. 3.To provide a more comlete explanation to the problem the Sciense Board of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan proposed thorough arcaeological investigations in the site. 4.A staff of seven researchers of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan have been investigating the place. The results of the research carried out in 2007. The first, main stage involved the archaeological investigation of the mass grave. The second stage was the investigation of the burial place from a historical point of view and on the basis of archive materials. The third stage included ...
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Welcome to Archaeoscoop, the place to find heritage and archaeology related stories from around the world! Today we travel to Armenia: news.am
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University College Cork (UCC) archaeologist, Dr Ron Pinhasi, and a team of international archaeologists discovered the world's oldest leather shoe in a cave in Armenia. The perfectly preserved shoe is 1000 years older than the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt and 300 years older than Newgrange, Co Meath. - Updated friday 11th of June with slight modifications to graphics used
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Featuring never seen before images and footages of vandalized, desecrated and even completely destroyed Armenian khachkars, landmarks, monasteries and cemetaries. Witness how medieval khachkars were demolished by the Armenian authorities, just to build a new restaurant in Yerevan. Experience how the Gtchavank Monastery was vandalized and look whats actually behind the "We Are Our Mountains" landmark in Nagorno Karabakh, Azerbaijan. Perhaps what is most disturbing about these acts of destruction is that they are completely neglected by the Armenian public. More information on endangered khachkars in Armenia: www.khachkar.am Disclaimer: In the comment section, make sure you dont spam and dont use inappropriate language.
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The recent sensational discoveries by a team from the German Archaeological Institute [the first findings were made in 1994 and are still ongoing], led by field director Dr. Klaus Schmidt and Harald Hauptmann -- at Göbekli Tepe [lit. navel Mountain, highly probable that this is the primordial name of the place, and navel is associated with the Navel of the Earth [Port in Armenian, connected with port[al] in Greek Omphalos, the Delphi [oracle] in antiquity was called the Navel of the Earth. Generally, the omphalos, or navel-boss, was the emblem of the AYA -- The Mother Goddess. Our ancient ancestors considered a woman's navel the seat of her sexual passion, throughout Siwnik there are still remnants of phallic/mountain shaped portak‛arer literary navel stones that according to ancient traditions would be visited by barren women who would genuflect on the sacred stones in the hope of divine impregnation -- so we return to the name of Navel [feminine] Mountain [masculine]..., 15 km northeast of the city of Sanliurfa, near historic Urfa or Urha [Edessa], the point o origin of the Armenian Solar cult of Orion that later spread to other parts of the globe, has been a truly revolutionary archaeological discovery. The cult site consists of circular stone formations that look similar to those in Stonehenge, only that Stonehenge is about 6000 years younger. www.armenianhighland.com
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Armenia has a rich history as the meeting place between East and West. It has great archaeology, delicious local food, and lots of local artists and cultural sites. Don't miss the "crawbsters" in the park.
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the world's oldest shoe, a preserved 5500 year old cowhide piece of footwear that was discovered in a cave in Armenia, is seen in a photo released after its discovery by an archaeology team from University College Cork June 9, 2010. The shoe, dating from 3500 BC, is the equivalent of a women's European size 37 (US size 7), but researchers say it could have fit a man living at that time.
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Jacquetta Hawkes, "The First Great Civilizations," London, 1967 "Yet the Hurrians did not disappear from history. Away to the North in their Armenian homeland, they entrenched themselves and build up the kingdom of Urartu." M. Chahin, "The Kingdom of Armenia," London, 2001 "The new kingdom of Urartu, which proved to be the stronghold of the Hurrian race." Greater Armenia lies in the highlands surrounding Mount Ararat, the highest peak of the region. In the Bronze Age, several states flourished in the area of Greater Armenia, including the Hittite Empire (at the height of its power), Mitanni (South-Western historical Armenia), and Hayasa-Azzi (1600-1200 BC). Soon after the Hayasa-Azzi were the Nairi (1400-1000 BC) and the Kingdom of Urartu (1000-600 BC), who successively established their sovereignty over the Armenian Highland. Each of the aforementioned nations and tribes participated in the ethnogenesis of the Armenian people. I. Geography. 'araraT (Sumerian Ar, "region," plus ar "high," plus Tu, "mountain," plus "high mountainous region"): in Assyrian, UrTu, UrarTu, UrasTu: in AEgyp, Ermenen (= "Region of the Minni") Wiener, Origin of the Pentateuch, Armina, Armaniyqa (Armenia): in Hecataeus of Miletus, circa 520 BC, the people are Armenioi (Gen 8:4; 2 Ki 19:37; Isa 37:38; Jer 51:27). Throughout the Bible, this is a country, not a mountain. Armenia Major was bounded on the North by the River Cyrus (Kour), Iberia, Colchis, and the Moschici Mts.; on the West by Asia Minor ...
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VERJINÉ SVAZLIAN, ethnographer and folklorist, was born in 1934, in Alexandria (Egypt) in the family of the writer and public man, Karnik Svazlian, himself an eyewitness survivor of the Armenian Genocide. She had her elementary education at the local Poghossian Armenian National School, then her secondary education -- at the Armenian Nuns' Immaculate Conception School with a French language bias. In 1947, she was repatriated with her parents to the Motherland, Armenia. In 1956, she graduated with honors from the Historico-Linguistic Department of the Yerevan Khachatour Abovian Armenian State Pedagogical University. Beginning from 1955, she started, on her own initiative, to write down and thereby saved from a total loss the various folklore relics communicated, in different dialects, by the Armenians forcibly exiled from Western Armenia, Cilicia and Anatolia to the various countries of the world and finally repatriated to Armenia, as well as the memoirs and the songs of historical character narrated by the eyewitness survivors of the Armenian Genocide. From 1958, she started to work at the Manouk Abeghian Institute of Literature of the Academy of Sciences of Armenia. During her post-graduate studies, she has been a M. Abeghian grant-aided student (under the scientific leadership of the Academician Karapet Melik-Ohandjanian). Beginning from 1961 up to the present time she is working at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of ...
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The Palaeolithic (Acheullean-Mousterian) site of Aghavnatun-1 is situated in Armavir Province of Armenia, near Lernamerdz village. It has been excavated since 2009 by the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the NAS of Armenia. The head of the expedition is Boris Gasparyan.
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Areni-1 Cave is situated in the Southern Armenia, East from the village of Areni and located in the limestone formations of the left bank of the Arpa River (tributary of the Araxes River). The archaeological investigations here have been carried out since 2007 by an international team (Armenia-Ireland-USA) led by Boris Gasparyan.
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Excavations at Tigranakert began in March 2005, when it was first discovered, and are currently ongoing under the directorship of Dr. Hamlet Petrosyan of the Armenian Academy of Sciences' Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography. Archaeologists have uncovered two of the main walls of the city, as well as Hellenistic-style towers and an Armenian church dating to fifth to seventh centuries. In 2008, the excavation team began to face funding issues, although the authorities of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic have promised to allocate 30 million drams to continue further research. In June 2010, a museum dedicated to the study and preservation of artifacts unearthed from Tigranakert's ruins was opened on the territory of the former city of Aghdam(which lay in ruins today). en.wikipedia.org
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Part 2 Lute Instruments in Armenia and Their Mesopotamian Roots Part 2
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