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    Emil Lazarian
  • 8 years ago
    • Categories: 2018

Joint American-Armenian, Italian-Armenian expedition teams engaged in archaeological excavations in Vayots Dzor, Kotayk

ArmenPress, Armenia
June 15 2018
Joint American-Armenian, Italian-Armenian expedition teams engaged in
archaeological excavations in Vayots Dzor, Kotayk
YEREVAN, JUNE 15, ARMENPRESS. Two joint expedition teams, one
American-Armenian and the other Italian-Armenian, have begun
excavations in the archaeological sites of Vayots Dzor and Kotayk
provinces in Armenia.
RobertoDan, team leader of the Armenian-Italian expedition team, who
is studying Urartian archaeology, told ARMENPRESS that the sites of
the two provinces have great potential in terms of Urartian
archaeology.
“These areas aren’t well studied. The Kingdom of Van was the first
state formation in the Armenian Highlands and the details of its
formation and spread are very interesting”, he said.
Tiffany Spadoni from the American-Armenian team says Armenia is a
country having pretty interesting morphology in terms of military
landscape. Spadoni deals with studying military landscape.
Thirty monuments were discovered in 2017 in the Yegheghis Valley.
Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan
Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS