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Starting 2015 with a NEW WEBSITE!

Hi everyone, A quick update on what I’ve been up to. Lately I’ve been wondering about improving the overall experience of this blog. Specifically when it comes to usability, readability, speed and...

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Technical Difficulties

New website experiencing some technical difficulties. It’ll be back in a while!

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How an Armenian Monk Brought Gingerbread to the West

In the spirit of holidays I would like to share an interesting article about the introduction of gingerbread in Europe.  By: Liana Aghajanian from: Ianyan magazine  Eaten in England, Germany, the U.S.,...

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Markarian Galaxies

Hubble’s view of the blue compact dwarf galaxy known as Markarian 209 The Discovery Channel posted today an interesting “photo of the day” on their Facebook page. It’s a picture as seen by the Hubble...

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10 World’s Oldest Things From Armenia

Leather Shoe – 5,500 years old A perfectly preserved shoe, 1,000 years older than the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt and 400 years older than Stonehenge in the UK, has been found in a cave in Armenia....

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Documentary on Turkey’s hidden Armenians – Teaser

Documentary on Turkey’s hidden Armenians “Turkey, the Legacy of Silence”, to be released on the web on April 2015 (centennial of the Armenian Genocide).

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Archaeologists Find Traces of Destruction in Ancient Armenian Town

Bone remains from a bronze age archaeological site in Metsamor, Armenia Archaeologists from the University of Warsaw (Institute of Archaeology) discovered evidence of destruction and capture of the...

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Armenian Chef Wins at Culinary World Cup 2014

Vera Hovhannisian Wins Gold at Culinary World Cup No this is not a supermodel, this lovely lady Vera Hovhannisian has won a gold medal and the world cup at the Culinary World Cup 2014 held in Luxemburg...

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Bolivia unanimously approves Resolution on the Armenian Genocide

From: Public Radio of Armenia On Wednesday 26 November, the Plurinational Legislative Assembly of Bolivia unanimously passed a resolution in solidarity with the claims of the Armenian people and...

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Armenian Flatbread ‘Lavash’ is inscribed on UNESCO’s list of Intangible...

Armenian flatbread Lavash Armenian flatbread, otherwise known as lavash has been inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Armenia’s Foreign Ministry...

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3,000-year-old Settlement in Eastern Turkey reveals Armenian Traces

Largest archaeological settlement of Tunceli province was discovered bearing Armenian writing on ancient stones The discovery of a large 3000 year old archaeological settlement in Eastern Turkey has...

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Yerevan turns 2799, Congratulation!

Yerevan is the capital and largest city of Armenia and one of the world’s oldest continuously inhabited cities. Today marks the 2799th anniversary of the foundation of the capital city of...

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Grandmaster Levon Aronian Wins FIDE Chess World Cup for the Second Time

Armenia’s chess Grandmaster Levon Aronian wins the FIDE Chess World Cup 2017 (held in Tbilisi, Georgia), by defeating his Chinese opponent Ding Liren during tie-break games. In the first game Levon...

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New DNA Study On The Origins of The First Civilizations of Greece Reveals...

Some of Europe’s earliest traces of civilization are found in modern Greece along the Aegean sea. During the Bronze Age, two prominent archaeological cultures emerged in the Aegean. The culture of the...

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Jeweled gun of Sultan Mahmud I by Hovhannes Agha Düz (1732-1733)

Armenian jewelers, just as in the Russian and Persian empires, were renown in the Ottoman empire. English archaeologist V. Gordon Childe in his work ‘New Light on the Most Ancient East’ describes that...

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The Milk Revolution: How people from the Armenian Plateau brought milk to Europe

The Armenian Highlands was an important center of early human technological and agricultural inventions. Situated at the crossroads between Europe, Middle East and Asia it served as a geographic...

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A New Study Finds 8000 Years of Maternal Genetic Continuity in Armenia

That the Armenians are an indigenous people of the Armenian Highlands has already been well established by prominent studies in the field of genetics. Haber et. al. (2015) for example could not find...

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Old Depictions of Armenian Life

Here is another series of beautiful old illustrations and paintings of Armenians and Armenian life, that I have collected over time. There are many similar posts on this blog and I’ll continue to share...

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Explaining Tabby’s Star; the “Alien Megastructure” Star named after an...

The 2015 publication of an enigmatic star made huge waves in the media. People quickly started to speculate of a possible “Alien Megastructure” that is blocking the view of the star KIC 8462852...

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Levon Aronian Wins The Norway Chess Tournament With 0 Losses

Congratulations to Levon Aronian for winning the Altibox Norway Chess 2017 Tournament! Armenian Grandmaster Levon Aronian won the Norway Chess Tournament after 9 rounds without a single loss. After...

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