Introduction. The most revered deity of the Armenian pagan pantheon was Anahit, the goddess of fertility, healing, and motherhood, whom Agathangelos calls "the glory and life-giver of our nation." Her temples were among the richest in the entire country. And it was this very wealth that became the cause of one episode...
Introduction There are few episodes in the history of Armenia that are repeated so often and examined so little. The sentence "Hannibal built Artashat" is found in textbooks, travel guides, and hundreds of articles. But when we turn to the primary sources, the picture is much more...
In the Adıyaman province of southeastern Turkey, at an altitude of 2134 meters above sea level, there is a bare and rocky peak. There is neither water nor trees there, and no reason for a person to climb it. And right there, two thousand years ago, a king decided to build his eternal home. Today, on that peak, weighing tens of tons...
The year is 1184. Every summer, fever breaks out in the swamps of the lowland regions of Cilician Armenia. People shiver, burn with fever, many die. No one knows why. That year, commissioned by Catholicos Grigor IV Tgha, the country's chief physician Mkhitar Heratsi finishes a book that will become... Armenian medicin...
In June 1098, when Antioch finally fell, the Crusaders did not know that the Armenian princes who had come to their aid in the Taurus Mountains had just laid the foundation of a state destined to last for almost three centuries. Constantine I Rubinyan received the titles of count and baron. The titles themselves meant little. Import…
PART A. TESTIMONY OF THE ARMENIAN SOURCE 1. The name that lived for 1,400 years This is the strongest Armenian fact in this entire story, and it is almost never mentioned. In Urartian cuneiform inscriptions, the capital is called Tushpa (Ṭušpa). In Assyrian annals — Turushpa. The city was destroyed in 6... BC.
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