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[bellthecat]

Two new pages have been recently added to VirtualANI:

The Ani Stone Quarries: will Armenia turn Ani into an industrial wasteland? An account of the stone quarry that has blighted the landscape around the Ani ruins, with photographs. Plus a selection of media reports and responses to the quarry.
http://www.virtualan...e.co.uk/quarry/

A description, with photographs, of the ruins of the 10th century monastery of Saint George of Goms, on the shores of Lake Van in eastern Turkey.
http://www.virtualan...rve.co.uk/goms/

[Azat]

Steve,
You have one of the most wonderful sites I have seen.

Great job
Azat

[bellthecat]

Another new page has been added to VirtualANI:

THE STEREOSCOPIC
PHOTOGRAPHS OF ANI

http://www.virtualan...o.uk/kurkdjian/

O. Kurkdjian was an Armenian photographer based in Yerevan during the 19th century. He produced a series of stereoscopic photographs (stereographs) of Ani. It is not known exactly when the photographs were taken: sometime between 1875 and 1880, but probably after the Kars district (including Ani) was incorporated into the Russian Empire (i.e. after 1877).