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Huri/Seri – Aratta/Sumer – Armani/Subartu – Ararat/Assyria – Armenia/Syria – Kurmanji/Sorani Ar/Su – Ara/Sun Asha/Arta is the Avestan language term (corresponding to Vedic language ṛta) for a concept of cardinal importance to Zoroastrian theology and doctrine. Its Old Persian equivalent is arta-.[c] In Middle Iranian languages the term appears as ard-.[a] The word is attested […]

Eastern Anatolia has played a major role in the development of the Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age. It is also one of the most complex regions for population geneticists to disentangle due to its high level of genetic diversity. Armenia has sometimes been claimed as the urheimat of the Proto-Indo-European speakers. This could […]

The Armenian Highland lies in the highlands surrounding Mount Ararat, the highest peak of the region. The history of Şanlıurfa, one of several cities in the upper Euphrates-Tigris basin, the fertile crescent, where agriculture began, is recorded from the 4th century BC, but may date back at least to 9000 BC, when there is ample […]

One of the most important goddesses of reconstructed Proto-Indo-European religion is the personification of dawn as a beautiful young woman. Her name is reconstructed as Hausōs. Derivatives of *h₂ewsṓs in the historical mythologies of Indo-European peoples include Indian Uṣas, Greek Ἠώς (Ēōs), Latin Aurōra, and Baltic Aušra (“dawn”, c.f. Lithuanian Aušrinė). Germanic *Austrōn- is from […]

Ingen har blitt så mye misforstått og misbrukt som Jesus, som døde på korset for oss alle. Men det er ikke lidelsene hans som er det store. Mange har lidd langt verre enn Jesus. Hvor mange armenere ble for eksempel ikke spikra opp på kors under folkemordet på armenerne? Saken er at han er et […]