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 ancient city of Metsamor, one of the most famous archaeological sites in Armenia. Metsamor was essentially a Bronze Age city that at its heyday (from the...
Discovering the kingdom of Van
Did you know that the discovery of the ancient kingdom of Urartu/Ararat was made due to records from a medieval Armenian history book? Well, the existence of the Kingdom of Ararat, or Urartu, was unknown to science until the year 1823 when a French scholar, J. Saint-Martin, chanced upon a passage in the ‘History of...
