In 2017, an Italian student Vittoria Dall’Armellina was visiting the Mkhitarist monastery on San Lazzaro in Venice when she spotted a familiar looking sword. The sword was mistakenly labeled as a medieval artifact and was thought to be a few hundred years old. It turns out it’s one of the oldest known weapons in...
New DNA study rejects the Balkan origin of Armenians
Armenians are in many ways a unique ethnic group in the Near East. For one the Armenians speak a separate isolated branch within the Indo-European language family. Armenians are also genetic isolates showing little to no admixture since the Bronze Age collapse, and are considered one of the few ancient representatives of the Near...
Are Armenians Caucasians?
This is a subject that will certainly ruffle some feathers and potentially cost me more than a few subscribers. But I’m sitting home in quarantine with nothing better to do, so I thought to myself, it’s time for a good old fashioned digital controversy. All joking aside though, if you thought the “dolma wars”...
The Return and Cosmic Warriors (Posters)
Since the worldwide pandemic forced everyone into lockdown, I’ve decided to pick up one of my favorite hobbies; drawing. I’ve made a few illustrations that I would like to share with you today. The Return The return is my first digital painting. It depicts Hayk (the founding father of the Armenian nation), overlooking the...
The Mushki; a lost Armenian tribe?
Guest entry – Author: Norgrmaya Russian historian Igor M. Diakonoff (in)famously suggested in his oft-cited 1968 work, “The Pre-history of the Armenian People” that the Armenian language was brought to the Armenian Highlands in the early 12th century BCE, following the Bronze Age Collapse (when the Hittite Empire fell, leaving a power vacuum in Asia...
Andin: Armenian Journey Chronicles
Just a few days ago the full documentary film Andin was released on YouTube (see bellow). I’ve been waiting to see this documentary ever since I’ve heard of its production many years ago. Andin is no doubt one of my favorite documentaries because it details a part of Armenian history that we have long...
Dayeakut’iwn; an ancient Armenian tradition of guardianship
Armenia is a land of traditions. Traditions that are often born out of necessity to cope with harsh life conditions. One such tradition that recently caught my attention is the ancient practice of dayeakut’iwn. Dayeakut’iwn is a form of child rearing, practiced anciently in Armenia, where a parent would send their child to be...
Burial of an ancient female warrior discovered in Armenia
Archaeologists have discovered the grave of an injured woman who died during the Iron Age in Armenia. The remains belonged to a woman who seemed to live as a professional warrior and was buried as an individual of rank during the Urartu (Ararat) era in Armenia. Based on the wounds to her skeleton, she...
11,300-year-old temple found in historical Armenia
A 80-square-meter Neolithic era temple estimated to be around 11,300 years old was recently discovered in eastern Turkey (Dargeçit, Mardin district), a region that once was inhabited by Armenians. The structure is considered to be of the same age and style as the famous temple of Portasar (a.k.a. Göbekli Tepe) and probably belongs to...
Byzantine Emperors of Armenian descent on gold coin
The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinople. It survived the fragmentation and fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD and...
