Post by nina2 on Oct 24, 2008 18:09:11 GMT -5
... That Armenia has been suggested as one of the possible locations for the Garden of Eden??
This is just a "little bit" of Armenia's ancient history, but a lot of it is extremely interesting, puzzling, exciting, worth digging, well, I feel like that about history anyway...
It's just one of those "forgotten" countries, that we don't hear about a lot (except for the modern days genocide that took place in Armenia..), not big, not in the headlines all the times, and yet with an amazing past and, who knows, future??
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“Armenia has been populated since prehistoric times, and has been proposed as the site of the Biblical Garden of Eden.
Armenia lies in the highlands surrounding the Biblical mountains of Ararat, upon which Noah's Ark came to rest after the flood. (Gen. 8:4).
In Armeni Sumerian records written ca. 2,700 BC, tells us the story of the Great Flood and the rebirth of Life [the Tree of Life or the Garden [Partez - Paradise - the main motif in the Armenian-Hurrian Mitanni and Araratian reliefs] of Eden located in Armenia - the Land of Four Rivers.
Archeologists continue to uncover evidence that Armenia and the Armenian Highlands was the earliest site of human civilization.
The earliest record identified with Armenians, is from an inscription which mentions Armani together with Ibla, as territories conquered by Naram-Sin (2300 BC) identified with an Akkadian colony in the Diarbekr region.
To this day the Assyrians refer to Armenians by this form Armani.
Another mention by Thutmose III of Egypt, mentions the people of Ermenen in 1446 BC, and says in their land "heaven rests upon its four pillars" (Thutmose was the first Pharoah to cross the Euphrates to reach the Armenian Highlands).[1]
To this day Kurds and Turks refer to Armenians by Ermeni. From 10,000 BC to 1000 BC, tools and trinkets of copper, bronze and iron were commonly produced in Armenia and traded in neighbouring lands where those metals were less abundant.
Several states flourished in the area of Greater Armenia, including Aratta (Haik's time), mentioned in Armenic Sumerian records (3rd millennium BC), the Hittite Empire (at the height of its power), Mitanni (South-Western historic Armenia) and Hayasa-Azzi (15th - 12th cc BC), and in the Iron Age the Nairi people (12th - 9th cc BC) and the Kingdom of Ararat (Biblical Ararat) (9th - 6th cc BC), each of the aformentioned nations and tribes participated in the ethnogenesis of the Armenian people.
Yerevan, the modern capital of Armenia, was founded in 782 BC by the Urartian king Argishti I.”
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If you want to find out more about it:
www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Armenian_History
And also:
Gobekli Tepe: The World’s First Temple?
www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/gobekli-tepe.html
Armenian Genocide:
www.armenian-genocide.org/genocide.html
This is just a "little bit" of Armenia's ancient history, but a lot of it is extremely interesting, puzzling, exciting, worth digging, well, I feel like that about history anyway...
It's just one of those "forgotten" countries, that we don't hear about a lot (except for the modern days genocide that took place in Armenia..), not big, not in the headlines all the times, and yet with an amazing past and, who knows, future??
.../...
“Armenia has been populated since prehistoric times, and has been proposed as the site of the Biblical Garden of Eden.
Armenia lies in the highlands surrounding the Biblical mountains of Ararat, upon which Noah's Ark came to rest after the flood. (Gen. 8:4).
In Armeni Sumerian records written ca. 2,700 BC, tells us the story of the Great Flood and the rebirth of Life [the Tree of Life or the Garden [Partez - Paradise - the main motif in the Armenian-Hurrian Mitanni and Araratian reliefs] of Eden located in Armenia - the Land of Four Rivers.
Archeologists continue to uncover evidence that Armenia and the Armenian Highlands was the earliest site of human civilization.
The earliest record identified with Armenians, is from an inscription which mentions Armani together with Ibla, as territories conquered by Naram-Sin (2300 BC) identified with an Akkadian colony in the Diarbekr region.
To this day the Assyrians refer to Armenians by this form Armani.
Another mention by Thutmose III of Egypt, mentions the people of Ermenen in 1446 BC, and says in their land "heaven rests upon its four pillars" (Thutmose was the first Pharoah to cross the Euphrates to reach the Armenian Highlands).[1]
To this day Kurds and Turks refer to Armenians by Ermeni. From 10,000 BC to 1000 BC, tools and trinkets of copper, bronze and iron were commonly produced in Armenia and traded in neighbouring lands where those metals were less abundant.
Several states flourished in the area of Greater Armenia, including Aratta (Haik's time), mentioned in Armenic Sumerian records (3rd millennium BC), the Hittite Empire (at the height of its power), Mitanni (South-Western historic Armenia) and Hayasa-Azzi (15th - 12th cc BC), and in the Iron Age the Nairi people (12th - 9th cc BC) and the Kingdom of Ararat (Biblical Ararat) (9th - 6th cc BC), each of the aformentioned nations and tribes participated in the ethnogenesis of the Armenian people.
Yerevan, the modern capital of Armenia, was founded in 782 BC by the Urartian king Argishti I.”
.../...
If you want to find out more about it:
www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Armenian_History
And also:
Gobekli Tepe: The World’s First Temple?
www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/gobekli-tepe.html
Armenian Genocide:
www.armenian-genocide.org/genocide.html