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,...
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....