ARCHEOLOGIE

Les montagnes d'Arménie recèlent de véritables merveilles d'art préhistorique:
The Armenian highlands as an integral of the ancient world, as one of the initial cradles of human culture, are extremely rich with marvels of prehistoric art, original and multifarious rock-carved images, about which numerous informations and reports have been published during almost 60 years. According to these, on the great many mountain peaks of Armenia, on the alpian slopes, in the caverns, on the bare mirror of the rocks and even on the flat surface of the volcanic protuberances in the lowlands, on tens of hundreds of kilometers, are spread extensive agglomerations of prehistoric rock-carved images, extending from the skirts of the Aragats to the Armenian Taurus, unto Assyria, till the frontiers of Palestine and Iraq. There are especially large groups of rock-carved pictures on the peaks and the slopes of the Gueghamian, Vardenis, Djermouk and the Siounic mountains. Among these are particularly remarkable the picture collections of the Gueghamian mountains, the great majority of which has been studied during the years 1966 - 1968 by a special expeditional party of the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR. voir

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