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 “The Natural History” (6.10): “The more famous...
Coin of the King of Kings
This is another fine example of pre-Christian Armenian coin. Tigranes the Great (140–55 BC; also called Tigranes II and sometimes Tigranes I) was emperor of Armenia under whom the country became, at the time, the strongest state east of the Roman Republic. He was a member of the Artaxiad Royal House. Under his reign,...
