The Armeniad, Text and Illustrations by Boris Baratov (hardcover)

This richly illustrated, coffee-table volume offers a panorama of the civilization of ancient Armenia. It is based on the works of Armenian historians and on the latest research of a number of European scholars. It tells of the principal stages in the formation of the Armenian identity and the Armenian civilization in the mountainous basin of Lake Van, and in the Ararat and Mush Valleys from the 4^th-3^rd millennia onwards. The reader will be able to obtain an impression of a civilization that has travelled in parallel with the great cultures of antiquity, and will learn of important 19th- and 20th-century archaeological research into Asia Minor, which uncovered the visible pages of the ancient past to an amazed world.