Adana – History of the Historical Armenian City
Çukurova, alternatively known as Cilicia, is a geo-cultural region in south-central Turkey, covering the provinces of Mersin, Adana, Osmaniye and Hatay. Çukurova in Turkish means roughly “Low Plain”,...
View ArticleIraq’s ‘Garden of Eden’
It was Iraq’s ‘Garden of Eden’; unique wetlands in southern Iraq where a people known as the Ma’dan, or ‘Arabs of the marsh’, lived in a Mesopotamian Venice, characterised by beautifully elaborate...
View ArticleIn the Beginning of Christianity
Christianity began as a Second Temple Judaic sect in the 1st century in the Roman province of Judea. Jesus’ apostles and their followers spread around Syria, the Levant, Europe, Anatolia, Mesopotamia,...
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Wilsonian Armenia
Wilsonian Armenia refers to the boundary configuration of the First Republic of Armenia in the Treaty of Sèvres, as drawn by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson’s Department of State. The Treaty of Sèvres...
View ArticleMary, Mother of Jesus
Mary was a first-century BC Galilean Jewish woman of Nazareth, and the mother of Jesus, according to the New Testament and the Quran. The gospels of Matthew and Luke in the New Testament and the Quran...
View ArticleThe City of Batroun, Lebanon
Batroun (Arabic: البترون al-Batrun; Aramaic: בתרון; Syriac script: ܒܬܪܘܢ Bitron) is a coastal city in northern Lebanon lying 50 km north of Beirut and 30 km south of Tripoli. It is the capital city...
View ArticleThe City of Petra
Petra (Arabic: ٱلْبَتْرَاء, romanized: Al-Batrāʾ; Ancient Greek: Πέτρα, “Stone”), originally known to its inhabitants as Raqmu, is a historical and archaeological city in southern Jordan. Petra lies...
View ArticleThe Story of Ethiopian Armenians
There is a small community of Armenians in Ethiopia, primarily in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. Armenians had traded with Ethiopia from as early as the first century AD. The Armenian population...
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The American Lithographer Adolf Dehn
Adolf Dehn (22 November 1895 – 19 May 1968) was an American lithographer. Throughout his artistic career, Dehn participated in and helped define some important movements in American art, including...
View ArticleSanta from Iraq (Sumer)
Every year millions of children around the world anxiously wait for the arrival of Santa Claus. Parents tell stories of the man with the white beard, red coat and polished boots who travels the world...
View ArticleSulawesi art: Animal painting found in cave in Indonesia
The Indonesian drawing is not the oldest in the world. Last year, scientists said they found “humanity’s oldest drawing” on a fragment of rock in South Africa, dated at 73,000 years old. Sulawesi art:...
View ArticleHistory of the Cat
The Norwegian forest cat (or scogkatts in Norwegian) originated between 1500 and 4,000 years ago, as a result of natural selection. Though they almost went extinct during World War II, the ancient cats...
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Armenian Translation of Edda
Meeting with my friend Hakob Sargsyan, who has translated the Poetic Edda (Den eldre Edda) from Old Norse to Armenian …. – he will soon be on his way to translate the heroic poems of the Edda and the...
View ArticleThe Origin of Raouché, Lebanon
Raouché (Arabic: الروشة, romanized: ar-Rawše) is a residential and commercial neighborhood in Beirut Central District, Beirut, Lebanon. It is known for its upscale apartment buildings, numerous...
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The Origin of Tandoor
What is a Tandoor? The tandoor is used for cooking in Southern, Central, and Western Asia, as well as in the South Caucasus. The English word comes from Hindi / Urdu tandūr, which came from Persian...
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Amaru Muru and Midas Monument
Amaru Muru , known as the stellar door or “Hayu Marca” which means the city of spirits a sacred mystical and enigmatic place, is an abandoned stone place in Peru, near Lake Titicaca, known as a “Gate...
View ArticleMeghri and the 17th century Surp Hovhannes Church
Meghri (Armenian: Մեղրի), is a town and the center of the urban community of Meghri, in Syunik Province at the south of Armenia, near the border with Iran. The area of present-day Meghri has been...
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Sarkis Hatspanian, Artsakh
Two years ago today, Artsakh war veteran, political commentator and activist, Sarkis Hatspanian, passed away in Lyon, France. He was only 55. He was born and grew up in Turkey before relocating to...
View ArticleOrigin of the Indo-Europeans
According to the widely held Kurgan hypothesis, c.q. renewed Steppe hypothesis, the oldest branch were the Anatolian languages, which split from the earliest proto-Indo-European speech community...
View ArticleDenial is the Final and Ultimate Stage of Genocide
In the Obersalzberg Speech, a speech given by Adolf Hitler to Wehrmacht commanders at his Obersalzberg home on 22 August 1939, a week before the German invasion of Poland, Hitler asked: «Who, after...
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