From cliff-carved chapels to highland fortresses, these UNESCO-recognized sites bring travelers face to face with 17 ...

Before 1989, the medieval ruins of Ani were in a no-go zone on the border between NATO-member Turkey and what was then the Soviet Union. Until a few years ago, it was still difficult to visit, ...

In 2010, the J. Paul Getty Museum was drawn into a lawsuit over a piece of art in its collection. The Armenian Church sued the Getty Museum for the return of eight pages of an illuminated manuscript ...

1 The ruins of Ani, the capital of a medieval Armenian kingdom. Ani is located in Turkey's northeastern Kars region, less than 1 kilometer from modern-day Armenia. All photographs courtesy of ...

In a world of mass-produced paperbacks, magazines and electronic books, Tamara Ohanyan lives in a literary past. She works among dyed leather, hand-sewn bindings and centuries-old parchment. As a book ...

This is the plea of a 14th century Armenian monk and artist, T’oros of Taron, to the abbot of his monastery, Yesayi of Nich. Made at a time when the Armenian Church was intent on maintaining its ...

The Getty Museum will keep eight brilliantly illustrated table of contents pages from a 750-year-old Armenian Bible after settling a long-running lawsuit brought by an American branch of the Armenian ...

A sculpture of Hasan Jalal Dawla holding up the Gandzasar monastery on the exterior of the church's central dome. In 1240 CE, an Armenian prince by the name of Hasan Jalal Dawla attended the ...

PanARMENIAN.Net - Today, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and his wife Mehriban Aliyeva visited the Karvachar region of occupied Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh) and the Dadivank Armenian monastery, ...

A modestly sized landlocked nation framed by the Black Sea to the west and the Caspian to the east, Armenia links the southernmost former Soviet Socialist Republics with the arid sprawl of the Middle ...