Science: Archaeology: Regional: Asia: Armenia

An article in the Jerusalem Post reporting that in the one country curiously devoid of any Jewish history, bishop discovers proof of one ancient community.

Reproductions of Armenian rock art with articles and links.

A survey of Armenian rock art with descriptions, images, and references.

Images and an article describing the carvings.

Nearly 200 interested people, both from the Armenian American and the Jewish American communities, attended a lecture by Dr Michael E. Stone on February 4, 2002 on "Stones from the River: The Lost Jews of Armenia."

UNESCO World Heritage Site description and petition.

An article by Kevin Alan Brook discussing the unexpected discovery in 1996 of Jewish graves by an Armenian bishop, Abraham Mkrtchyan.

A bibliography of sources on the discovery of a Jewish cemetery in Armenia.

Videos, images, and reports from the excavation in Armenia showing Jewish tombstones from the 13th and early 14th centuries.

Interactive map of the deserted medieval city brings up thumbnail photographs and key facts on each building. With brief history, account of its rediscovery and comments on recent excavations and restoration.

An exhibit about Francis Willey Kelsey's work in Armenia in 1919 to 1920, particularly on ancient habitation in Cilicia.

A joint Armenian-American archaeological research project to understand the transformation of early Transcaucasian societies from small pastoral and agricultural communities during the 3rd millennium B.C. into organized provinces of empires less than two thousand years later.

Bakutoday, Armenian archeologists together with paleontologists from England, Ireland and Spain are holding digs in Azikh cave situated in Nagorno Karabakh, Hajavand, Armenia.

Recent discoveries in the Caucasus region indicate that hominids occupied this area over a period of nearly two million years. The earliest hominids outside Africa are known from the Georgian site of Dmanisi in the southern Caucasus.

An intensive field survey in Northern Armenia. Antiquity Vol 78 No 301 September 2004.