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The following list contains notable inventions and discoveries made by ethnic Armenians, including those not born or living in modern-day Armenia and those of partial Armenian ancestry. List [ edit ]
Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of an Armenian church dating back almost 2,000 years, making it the oldest structure of its kind in the country and one of the oldest in the world.
The Aragats Mountain slopes, where Stone Age sites have been identified.. Archaeology in Armenia has revealed many significant historical findings. Armenia is rich in Bronze Age sites and several Stone Age sites were recently identified on the slopes of the Aragats Mountain and are currently being excavated by Armenian and international teams.
The diverse landscape of the Armenian Highland was exceptionally favorable for the habitation of hominids of the Paleolithic Homo species.Here the necessary raw materials for the creation of stone tools were available: andesite, dacite, obsidian, as well as a rich variety of hunting animals and vegetable food, including wide variety of poaceae family plants, countless fresh springs, rivers and ...
The Areni-1 shoe is a 5,500-year-old leather shoe that was found in 2008 in excellent condition in the Areni-1 cave located in the Vayots Dzor province of Armenia. [1] It is a one-piece leather-hide shoe, the oldest piece of leather footwear in the world known to contemporary researchers.
Mesrop Mashtots – invented the Armenian alphabet c. 405 AD, which was a fundamental step in strengthening Armenian national identity; Soukias Manasserian – engineer and inventor; Karen Manvelyan – biologist and environmentalist, director of the World Wildlife Fund in Armenia
Underwater footage of the legendary pirate William Kidd’s ship was shot at the site of its discovery off the coast of Santo Domingo in 2007; Footage of the original manuscript by historian Hethum Patmich (Hayton of Corycus), describing the journey of the Armenian king Hethum I to the borders of China in 1254; A shot from the Film.
Prehistoric Armenia refers to the history of the region that would eventually be known as Armenia, covering the period of the earliest known human presence in the Armenian Highlands from the Lower Paleolithic more than 1 million years ago until the Iron Age and the emergence of Urartu in the 9th century BC, the end of which in the 6th century BC marks the beginning of Ancient Armenia.