Armeniad

[Armenak]

http://www.armeniad.com/

 

This richly illustrated volume offers a panorama of the civilization of ancient Armenia. The literary portion of ‘The Armeniad’ is based on the works of Armenian historians and on the latest research of a number of European scholars. It tells of the principal stages in the formation of the Armenian identity and the Armenian civilization in the mountainous basin of Lake Van, and in the Ararat and Mush Valleys from the 4th—3rd millennia onwards.

 

The reader will be able to obtain an impression of a civilization which has travelled in parallel with the great cultures of Sumer, Assyria, the Hittite kingdom, Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome and Byzantium. In leafing through the pages of this book, the reader will learn of important 19th- and 20th-century archaeological research into Asia Minor, which uncovered the ‘visible pages’ of the ancient past to an astounded world. It is in examining the past that our contemporary world is able to gain a glimpse into its future.

 

Soogh e soogh e soogh e soogh e amen pan soogh e,

Ays ashkharin mech, amen pan soogh e.

[gamavor]

Looks well worthed the price. Is it available on Amazon?

[Eurocentric]

"Armani and Aratta — the ancient states of Armenia, contemporaries of the Sumer"

 

Cough...

 

[Zartonk]

Babylon — city of the legendary Hayk

 

Let me add my own cough.

Edited August 3, 2010 by Zartonk

[HyeFedayis]

The book looks great but its too expensive. Edited January 10, 2007 by HyeFedayis

[Hellektor]

"Armani and Aratta — the ancient states of Armenia, contemporaries of the Sumer"

 

Cough...

 

What's the problem?

 

Persians call us Armani. The Arab transliteration is not so different. Liberated from Soviet Sionist history fabrication, more and more historians believe Aratta and Ararat may be the same. I suggest you get hold of Artak Movsissians books and you'll see this isn't that improbable as you think.

 

Why us, Armenians should renounce our history while the civilization deficient Turks claim Sumerians, Arameans, Hurrians, Hitites, Greeks, Parthians, Elamite, Manni, Mittani, Arrata, Medians, Urartu, Achaemenids, Lydians, Thracians, Aluanians, Egyptians, Assyrians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Etruscans, Scythians, Eskimo, Native Americans, Incas, Aztecs, Mayas, Martians, Saturnans, Jupiterians and heaven knows what not, are all Turks and nobody seems to object?

 

Why can't we claim what’s ours according to overwhelming evidence of cultural continuity, geography, worldview, philosophy, etc.?

 

P.S. Other names of ancient Armenia: Nairi (by Assyrians), Uruartu-Urashtu (by Akkadians), Armina (by Persians), Harmenuya (by the Elamite), Subur-Subartu…

[Johannes]

Պատմութիւնը, լուրջ գիտութիւն է:

Սովետահայ պատմագիտութիւնը, վէրջին հարիւր տարուայ կապակցեալ թերիներ ունէր:

[Zartonk]

Liberated from Soviet Sionist history fabrication, more and more historians believe Aratta and Ararat may be the same.

 

That's true. The scholarly attempt to place the famed Aratta in Afghan lands has weakened substantially through the years.

 

I also want to clarify that by no means am I trying to dismiss the remnants of our far distant past. It is well accepted that our geographical vicinity is one of the cauldrons of civilization. I embrace the possibility that we have had states predating and rivaling others in every ancient era. I value nothing more then our legends & myths, for they are THE reverberations of our collective cultural consciousness. Hayk and Bell and the likes are all absolute GEMS.

 

But when it comes to the branch of knowledge known as History, the factual events concerning the Armenians are more than adequate to construct a glorious past. We don't need to rely on the legendary as our History...