priest Aristakes Aivazyan says it needed divine intervention to save Armenia's medieval Haghartsin monastery. But it also took a lot of money from a very unlikely benefactor -- the Muslim ruler of ...

Scottish researcher Steven Sim had traveled to post-Soviet Nakhichevan to assess the condition of the Armenian churches photographed earlier by Ayvazyan. Instead of medieval churches, Sim found ...

Professor Christina Maranci is the Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies and teaches the “Power and Beauty of Being In-Between: The Story of Armenia” Gen Ed course. This interview has been ...

The monastery of Geghard contains a number of churches and tombs, most of them cut into the rock, which illustrate the very peak of Armenian medieval architecture. The complex of medieval buildings is ...

a medieval Armenian name for the contested region. But what existed for centuries may be about to vanish in days. Last week, a lightning-fast Azerbaijani campaign overwhelmed armed separatists in ...

At the building’s entrance is a large statue of Mesrop Mashtots, a medieval Armenian linguist who’s credited with developing the Armenian alphabet. This imposing structure denotes the ...

This site is located on a secluded plateau of northeast Turkey overlooking a ravine that forms a natural border with Armenia. This medieval city combines residential, religious and military structures ...

making Armenia the first Christian state in the world. The medieval monastery of Khor Virap, just a stone's throw from the now-discovered church, is a reminder of this tradition. Artaxata served ...