The territories of the kingdom of Van, ruined in the first quarter of the 6th century BC, were united with the all-Armenian state of the Yervandids. In 550 BC, Armenia appeared under the rule of the Achemenid Persia and was divided into two satrapies governed by a Yervandid. In 331 BC, t [...]

In the mid-9th century BC, one of the most powerful states of the Ancient Near East, known as Urartu from Assyrian inscriptions, came down to the historic scene in the Armenian Highland. The Urartians called their country Biainili. It is mentioned as the Araratian Kingdom in the Bible. T [...]

The hill of Dvin and its environs have been inhabited since the 3rd millennium BC. During the excavations of 1958, a settlement of Late Bronze and Early Iron periods was discovered under the 10th -13th-century medieval cultural layer of the citadel in Dvin. Excavations opened workshops a [...]

Excavated finds from the earliest settlements spread all over Armenia show a picture of those times, when preconditions were formed for the first state unions (Hayasa- Azi, Confederation of Nairi Countries, Etiuni, etc.), when an anthropological, ethnic, cultural and linguistic grouping [...]

In the second half of the 4th millennium BC, the culture of the Early Bronze Age, also known as Shengavit or Kuro-Arax cultures, took shape in Armenia. It embraced an enormous territory, including the Armenian Highland and adjacent regions. The most important centre of this culture was t [...]

This exhibition presents an exceptional selection of about one thousand finds from archeological excavations that started more than 125 years ago and continue nowadays on the territory of Armenia (Satani Dar, Jraber, Kurtan, Metsavan, Aratashen, Masis, Dashtadem, Lusakert, etc). The Exhi [...]