Established in 2006 by the Association for Near Eastern and Caucasian Studies in corporation with Institute of Oriental Studies and Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography (National Academy of Sciences of Armenia) AJNES is the only periodical in the Republic of Armenia devoted exclusively to the investigation of ancient and medieval cultures of the Near East and the Caucasus. Articles appearing in its pages are contributions of scholars of international reputation in history, archaeology, philology, art, religion and science. Table of Contents for Volume XIII Issue 3: Preliminary results of the Getahovit-2 Cave excavations in 2018 - Irena Kalantaryan and Ghanem Ghanem ; Cognitive links between mountains and lowlands: balance weights from the Early Bronze Age site of Shengavit (Armenia) in context - Hakob Simonyan, Aram Gevorgyan and Arsen Bobokhyan ; Update on Hittite latti: an Anatolian-Greek isolexeme? - Jaan Puhvel ; Kurgans with auxiliary cists, externally attached to the cromlech in Armenia - Varduhi Melikyan and Garegin Tumanyan ; An Urartian rock inscription on Mt Taragheh, in Iranian Azerbaijan - Mirjo Salvini and Maryam Dara ; Seals from Argishtikhinili-Armavir - Nora Yengibaryan ; Inscribed stelae fragments and a stela base recently found at Karahan, eastern Turkey, and the problem of Karahan in Urartian epigraphy - Kenan Isik, Bulent Genc, Bilcan Goekce and Rifat Kuvanc ; Excavations at Maisyan (2014) - Levon Petrosyan, Hamazasp Khachatryan and Larisa Yeganyan ; Alliance with Hell: Romans vs Armenians and Arabs - Ilhami Tekin Cinemre ; A four-sided stele with a depiction of St George - Husik Melkonyan ; The iconography and symbology of the dragon in Armenian manuscript paintings - Sofi Khachmanyan ; Summaries in Armenian ; Abbreviations

Contents: The Paleolithic archaeology of Shirak Province and the open-air site of Aghvorik; Newly discovered Early and Middle Bronze Age tombs in Shirak, Armenia; On some Late Helladic migrants into Anatolia named in Hittite and Luwian sources, their migration to Iron Age Cilicia and their return to Greece in legend; On the origin and meaning of the Assyrian toponym Tabal; Die Mar vom griechischen und/oder woelfischen Ursprung von Lykiern, Lykaonen, Lukka und Luwija; A recently discovered Urartian stele dedicated to the god Ua from Avnik/Erzurum in East Turkey; A metal belt in the Orumiyeh museum, Iran; New observations on Urartian quarrying in Lake Van Basin; Achaemenid ceramics from the site Beniamin II (Shirak, Armenia): the end of the 6th to the mid 4th centuries BC

Established in 2006 by the Association for Near Eastern and Caucasian Studies in corporation with Institute of Oriental Studies and Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography (National Academy of Sciences of Armenia) AJNES is the only periodical in the Republic of Armenia devoted exclusively to the investigation of ancient and medieval cultures of the Near East and the Caucasus. Articles appearing in its pages are contributions of scholars of international reputation in history, archaeology, philology, art, religion and science. This book presents Issues 1 and 2 of ARAMAZD: Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies Volume XIV 2020 in one combined printed edition.

This special edition of Aramazd: Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies is dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the Republic of Armenia and summarises the studies conducted in Armenia in the field of archaeology (1991-2016). Contributions included in this volume cover a significant time span, from Lower Palaeolithic to the Middle Ages. The articles summarise the archaeological surveys conducted by joint international expeditions and partly by Armenian archaeologists. The volume also introduces the bio-bibliography of several outstanding representatives of Armenian archaeologists of the past whose activities enhanced the establishment and development of the Armenian archaeological school.