The Armenian language belongs to the Indo-Germanic family, enriched with many Sanscrit words, but having no affinity to the Semitic, or any of the more modern tongues. The people claim that it was the language of paradise, and will be the language of the heavenly world. – Maria A. West (1875), Romance of Missions:...
Armenia the heir of Urartu
Art of Urartu Urartu was an Iron Age Armenian kingdom famed for one of the finest examples of ancient art. Urartu at its zenith had a profound cultural influence on its neighbors reaching as far as Asia and Europe. Supported by discoveries of Urartian artifacts inside Etruscan burials, it has been hypothesized that much of...
Petroglyphs from Armenia 9000-3000 BCE
Cave Writing from Lake Sevan Before hieroglyphic writing was developed, between 900 and 700 BCE, people of the Armenian region expressed themselves by carving and painting designs on rocks. These three pictographs were executed between the 8th and 4th millenia BCE, (9000 to 3000 BCE). According to archaeologists the drawings are associated with Neolithic cultures,...
Armenian among Languages in Space
In 1977 NASA launched two unmanned space missions under the Voyager program. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 carried on board Golden Records containing greetings in 55 different human languages, music from different cultures and a collection of 116 images and a variety of natural sounds of Earth. They are intended for any intelligent extraterrestrial life form, or for...
Lord Byron’s Armenian exercises and poetry (1886)
The famous English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement Lord Byron, was a great admirer of Armenian culture. He learned the Armenian language in Venice from the Mechitarist Order, wrote substantially about the Armenian language and history, contributing to it’s improvement and translated ancient Armenian text into English. I stumbled upon this wonderful book of his Armenian exercises and poetry....
