T. Daryaee, "THE FALL OF URARTU AND THE RISE OF ARMENIA," Reflections of Armenian Identity in History, eds. H. Berberian & T. Daryaee, UCI Center for Persian Studies, 2018, pp. 38-44. (original) (raw)

Achaemenids and the Southern Caucasus

Bridging Times and spaces Papers in Ancient Near Eastern, Mediterranean and Armenian Studies Honouring Gregory E. Areshian on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday , 2017

Hasanlu, the Southern Caucasus and Early Urartu

Over the Mountains and Far Away Studies in Near Eastern History and Archaeology presented to Mirjo Salvini on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday (ed. Pavel Avetisyan, Roberto Dan, Yervand Grekyan) , 2019

The past decades witnessed an increasing recognition of the complexity of Hasanlu’s place in the Iron Age world that it shared with Assyria, due to research in the highlands to the north of Hasanlu and the proliferation of studies about the kingdom of Urartu. This paper explores evidence, ‘circumstantial’ and archaeological, for interaction between Hasanlu during Period IVb (1050-800 BC) and the incipient Urartian state. There is little question that during the latter half of Period IVb at Hasanlu, the entity that would become the kingdom of Urartu was coalescing in eastern Anatolia and northwestern Iran. The material culture of Hasanlu Period IVb provides hints of interaction between Hasanlu and the larger southern Caucasus region, and between Hasanlu and Urartu. The impact of this cultural contact is bilateral, although it is challenging to trace the steps by which the material culture of northwestern Iran contributed to the development of that in Urartu. This paper argues that material connections between Urartu and Hasanlu, the objects displayed on its citadel and the bodies of its citizens, in the rich and diverse collections safeguarded in storerooms and presumably taken as spoils by its destroyers, indicate the debt Urartu owed to northwest Iran.

In the Beginning: a Brief Introduction into Armenian History, Culture and Identity.

Evidence of a long history is present throughout Armenia today, in monuments, artifacts, and books, as well as in people's minds. It is not surprising to find a village miller, who, while sharing a midday meal with a visitor, might describe the nation's boundaries under Tigran the Great in the 1st century BC. Or he might recount the events that took place on the morning of May 26, 451, at Avarair, when his ancestors fought a losing battle with the Persians - which was considered a victory, nonetheless, since the weakened Persians withdrew, allowing the Armenians to keep their new Christian faith. The Armenian reading of history often incorporates its own sense of justice and injustice in addition to facts, a dynamic that one needs to comprehend to understand modern Armenia.