Armenia is the motherland of metallurgy, wine-making and horse breeding
July 6th, 2010 - 5:39 pm ICT by ANIYerevan, July 6 (ANI): Excavations have revealed that Mesopotamia’s civilization originated in Armenia, thus making it the motherland of metallurgy, jeweller’s art, wine-making and horse breeding, according to archaeologists.
A group of archaeologists made unique discoveries as a result of excavations at Shengavit (4000-3000 B.C.) and concluded that 4000-3000 B.C. Armenia was a highly developed state with exclusive culture.
The excavations are carried out by an Armenian-American archaeological expedition.
Director of the Scientific and Research Institute of Historical and Cultural Heritage of the RA Ministry of Culture Simonyan said that for example, the glass beads discovered at the territory of Shengavit are of a higher quality than the Egypt samples.
“Meanwhile, the amount of revealed horse bones at the territory has exceeded all expectations of the researchers,” panarmenian.net quoted him as saying.
With respect to this, German paleozoologist Hans Peter Wertman stated that he has not observed such a quantity of horses in the entire Ancient East.
A great number of stone tools have been found in workrooms.
“While the discovered evidences of copper production prove that a systematized iron production was established in Armenia,” said Simonyan, adding that many surprises are still awaiting us.
For his part, Mitchell S. Rothman, a Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology and founder of the Anthropology Department at Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania, said that all the discoveries prove that around 6,000 years ago the culture of Shengavit has spread over the ancient world.
“All that was known in Mesopotamia came from Armenia. Armenia is the absent fragment in the entire mosaics of the ancient world’s civilizations construction. Shengavit has supplemented the lacking chains, that we had been facing while studying the ancient culture of Mesopotamia,” concluded Rothman. (ANI)
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