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– The Hidden Pearl – The history of the Aramean people Watch the complete documentary movie (197 minutes in HD) “The Hidden Pearl” in english and learn about the Aramean people before and after Christianity, about their language, their culture, their religion and traditions. Portasar Portasar (“Navel”) or Göbekli Tepe (“Potbelly Hill”) is an archaeological […]

– The Biblical account of the garden of Eden has for long preoccupied the minds and imaginations of theologians, believers and countless adventurers of the past. Many have attempted to identify the location of the garden and put forward theories ranging from the underground, the north pole and even the surface of the moon. However […]

– Ani (Armenian: Անի) is a ruined and uninhabited medieval capitol of Armenia situated in the Turkish province of Kars, near the border with Armenia. It was once the capital of a medieval Armenian kingdom that covered much of present day Armenia and eastern Turkey. The city is located on a triangular site, visually dramatic […]

More than a third of the European pool of human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is fragmented into a number of subclades of haplogroup (hg) H, the most frequent hg throughout western Eurasia. Although there has been considerable recent progress in studying mitochondrial genome variation in Europe at the complete sequence resolution, little data of comparable resolution […]

Europeans as a people are younger than we thought, a new study suggests. DNA recovered from ancient skeletons reveals that the genetic makeup of modern Europe was established around 4,500 B.C. in the mid-Neolithic—or 6,500 years ago—and not by the first farmers who arrived in the area around 7,500 years ago or by earlier hunter-gatherer groups. “The genetics show that […]

The Birth of Europe: Colliding Continents and the Destiny of Nations by Michael Alford Andrews From the first use of materials to the discovery of uranium, the history of Europe has been the legacy of its geological foundations. Geology is not about static rocks – rocks move, sometimes violently and over vast distances. Such movements […]

I just read a blog post by Golden Trail about the importance of the names of deities in the Cultus Deorum (Roman polytheism), and how nuances and other important aspects of the religion aren’t as apparent to us anymore as they were to the ancients. This on account of the names often being Latin words, […]

On June 15, a group of Orthodox Jews beat Armenian clergy in the center of Jerusalem because the latter had cautioned them. Archbishop Aris Shirvanian, the spokesperson of the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem, told the aforesaid to Armenian News-NEWS.am. “Great crowds of Jews had come to Jerusalem for a celebration, and two of our clergy were […]