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So if you were to ask: “When did we thus learn the names of our ancestors and the deeds of many of them?” I reply: “From the ancient archives of the Chaldeans, Assyrians, and Persians, since their names and deeds were entered on the royal acts as prefects and goverrnors of our land appointed by them and as satraps.

Movses Khorenatsi “History of Armenia”, 5th Century

 
CONTENTS

Armenia in the cuneiform inscriptions of the Achaemenid kings

The Ararat Armenian kingdom of Van

Nineveh — Ashurpanibal’s library, the pearl of Assyria

Armani and Aratta — the ancient states of Armenia, contemporaries of the Sumer

Hayasa — the cradle of the Armenians

Babylon — city of the legendary Hayk

Commagene — the kingdom of the Ervandids

Artashat and Garni — residences of the Armenian kings

Tigranakertand the era of Tigran the Great

Edessa — the city of Abgar, first Christian king

Etchmiadzin — the citadel of Christianity

Ani and Kars — residences of the Armenian kings

Aghtamar and the Church of the Holy Cross

Armenians in the Byzantine Empire

Cilician Armenia — the Armenian kingdom on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea

Armenia — 1915

Matenadaran — the ark of the Armeniad

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