Vigen Avetisyan
Five angles of one small bronze figure — and what emerges is not an abstract “Near Eastern idol” but a specific individual: a woman in a long robe, wearing a tall cylindrical headdress, her face calm and faintly smiling, surviving from the depths of the 9th century BC. This is one of the few...
Vigen Avetisyan
Introduction Among the successor states that emerged from the fragmentation of the Achaemenid-derived Orontid (Armenian: Yervanduni), the Kingdom of Commagene occupies a special place. Wedged between the Taurus Mountains and the Euphrates, it produced one of antiquity’s most spectacular...
Vigen Avetisyan
Article based on the explanations and interpretive observations of Angela Terian, with additional archaeological and historical references. Among the archaeological objects associated with the ancient cultural landscape of the Armenian Highlands is a remarkable ceramic vessel decorated with a...
Vigen Avetisyan
An unprecedented find on Arin Berd hill On 23 July 2026, the French Embassy in Armenia announced that the joint French-Armenian archaeological mission working at the Erebuni fortress in Yerevan had uncovered a fragment of wall painting with its pigments almost fully intact. According to the...
Vigen Avetisyan
Tucked away in the greenery of the 2nd block of Yerevan’s Nor Nork district, in Tigran Mets Park, stands an unassuming cluster of dark volcanic boulders. Most passers-by see rocks; few realize they are looking at one of Armenia’s oldest surviving art forms — carved fragments of the famous Ughtasar...