Did you know that the discovery of the ancient kingdom of Urartu/Ararat was made due toΒ 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 βHistory of...
Ancient Armenian cities as recorded by the Greeks and Romans

Armenia was well known to classical Greek and Roman writers who on occasion made personal journeys to Armenia describing some of its countryside, villages and cities. Many of which are today only remembered through their records. Pliny the Elder for example recounts a few in his work βThe Natural Historyβ (6.10): βThe more famous...