METSAMOR: A Five-Thousand-Year-Old Settlement in Ancient Armenia
Service for the Protection of Historical Environment and Cultural Museum-Reservations, SNCO, Yerevan, 2024, 180 p․
This book is dedicated to the results of 60 years of archaeological excavations at the ancient site of Metsamor, located in the Ararat Valley, in the centre of the Republic of Armenia. Research continues to this day in the citadel, the urban quarter and the necropolis of the monument. The large number of valuable finds that have been discovered prove that the ancient site was founded in the Chalcolithic period, on the border between the 5th and 4th millennium BC, and existed without significant interruption for more than six thousand years, until the Late Middle Ages. The presented archaeological materials and their parallels play an important role in revealing and interpreting the diverse historical and cultural processes of the early period of the Ancient Near East. The book is published within the framework of the grant provided by the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports of the Republic of Armenia.
