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– Hovann Simonian and Peter Hrechdakian delivered the 18th Annual Vardanants Day Armenian lecture on their work using social media to expand the nonprofit Armenian DNA Project, a Facebook group of more than 1,000 members around the world involved in researching Armenian family history through genetic testing. – Charles de Lamberterie discusses the history of […]

DOGS IN THE HINDU WAY OF LIFE: Dogs have always been man’s faithful friend, loyal and loving. One is often reminded of the ‘His Master’s Voice’ story which pictorial shows a dog looking into the sound-drum of a gramophone. Vedic Indian dogs were taken to be auspicious symbols. Deities assumed dog form and symbolised security, […]

Hellen was the mythological progenitor of the Hellenes, the son of Deucalion (or sometimes Zeus) and Pyrrha, brother of Amphictyon and father of Aeolus, Xuthus, and Dorus. His name is also another name for Greek, meaning a person of Greek descent or pertaining to Greek culture, and the source of the adjective “Hellenic”. In Greek […]

Mesopotamia (from the Ancient Greek: Μεσοποταμία “[land] between rivers”; Syriac: Beth Nahrain “house (of the) rivers”) is a name for the area of the Tigris–Euphrates river system widely considered to be the cradle of civilization by the Western world. Geographically, it refers to the areas around the Euphrates and Tigris rivers (as well as their tributaries). […]