Arame's anthro blog

Khorenatsi lists multiple kings/patriarchs for a short period that fits into the end of Urartu and the rise of Orontid (Eruanduni) Armenia. ...

In Armenian historical tradition, the post-Urartian period — which, incidentally, is also the post-Assyrian period — is marked by the emerge...

According to the link below this coin was minted by the satrap of Armenia Orontes ( Eruand ) who is mentioned in the Xenophon's Anabasi...

About the origins of Yervanduni (old Eruanduni, Greek Orontid) dinasty. Part II. In the first part I presented arguments for the Eruanduni h...

  It is usually believed that the name of the Armenian king is not mentioned in the Cyropedia. Indeed, if You read the English translations ...

Urartu was a centralized and powerful kingdom that was capable to rival the main power of that period, the Assyrian kingdom. Quite extreme a...

  Armen Petrosyan's paper on the origins of Bagratid dinasty. He also mentions Hovann Simonian's opinion about the possible haplog...

A tribe Parnaki is attested in Iron Age Assyrian texts (Esarhadon period) in North East of modern Iraq.   I crushed the wicked Parnaki, who ...

About Yervanduni (old Eruanduni , Greek Orontid ) origins. It is frequent that a piece of information detached from his real context can cre...

It's not directly related to the ethnogenesis of Armenians but given that Christianity became an important part of Armenian identity it ...

The etymology of the term Getaru by Hrach Martirosyan. The term Getar(u) appears in various places including the Caucasian Albania. This la...

 A short paper that links Greek period personal name Tibios used as a generic name for Paphlagonians with Hittite period city/province Tibia...

 At last three different rivers were called Phasis in Greek sources. One of them was the Arax in Xenophone. This paper tries to explain why ...

 There are some terms coined by scholars that creates more confusion than help to understand the situation. One of such a term is the Arme-S...

Mushki is attested twice in Urartian texts. Both are from Rusa son of Argishti period. They are attested in an atypical text where a list of...

 Suhme was attested both in Hittite and Assyrian texts. In Hittite texts it is related to Hayasa but in Assyrian texts the same place do not...

 Let's discuss Dahae. After all Arshakids were from this tribal confederation so it's an important place for Armenian history. Is th...

 Uruatri ( other proposed variants Uruarti ) is mentioned for the first time circa 1275bc during the Shalmaneser's campaign toward lake ...

Saspeirs and Syspiritis from Greek sources are frequently linked with historic Sper ( modern town Ispir in Erzerum province ). However the s...

 Armen Petrosyan has more Armenian etymologies from Etiuni onomastics. Notice Urartians were in most likelihood omitting the laryngeal [h]...