WHEREAS SERGE SAYS AGHDAM IS NOT OUR HOMELAND
Lragir.am
10 Aug 06
The union of NGOs Yerkir for Repatriation and Settlement (chair Sevak
Artsruni) initiated and funded the expedition for Tigranakert of
the Armenian Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, led by Doctor
Hamlet Petrosyan. On the very first days of excavations near the city
of Aghdam the expedition made a sensational discovery. They found
the citadel built by the Armenian King Tigran the Great (95 – 55 BC)
built in an advanced Hellenic technique, which is the best evidence
that the town of Tigranakert of Artsakh was located in the place
where excavations are carried out. One of the terraces in the part
of the town surrounded by a wall is dug as well. The excavations in
the urban part of the town and the adjacent burial places have begun.
The excavations prove the presence of the Armenian identity in the
lower part of the Khachenaget River (the former region of Aghdam)
since at least the I century BC.