The Armenian alphabet is a true masterpiece of its era and knows many secrets. However, there is one in particular that still blows my mind. As some people know the Armenian alphabet was (re)invented in 405 AD by the Armenian linguist and theologian Mesrop Mashtots with the help of the patriarch Sahak Partev and...
Saint Mesrop Mashtots
One of the greatest figures in Armenian history, he was born about 361 at Hassik in the Province of Taron; died at Valarsabad, 441. He was the son of Vartan of the family of the Mamikonians. Koryun, his pupil and biographer, tells us that Mesrob received a liberal education, and was versed in the...
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,...
