DISCOVERED CITY OF TIGRAN THE GREAT

AZG Armenian Daily
18/08/2006

August 10, The expedition "Tigranakert" of the institute of Archaeology
and Ethnology of the Academy of Sciences of Republic of Armenia with
the initiative and financing of ~DFrance-Karabagh~I and "Yerkir"
Union of NGO-s for Repatriation and Settlement has made astounding
discoveries. The expedition, led by the Doctor of Historical Sciences
Hamlet Petrosyan, managed to find the citadel constructed by Tigran The
Great. The structure was built by huge plain stone blocks tied to each
other with the so called "swallow-tail bounds" – an advanced Hellenic
technique. Such a complicated and advanced technique is used here
for the first time and serves as evidence for the hypothesis of the
research group, in particular that Tigranakert of Artsakh is located
at the same place as the current archaeological excavation. One of
the fenced terraces of the city, which is also constructed from plain
blocks, is also under excavation.

The excavations of the urban district and adjacent burial mounds
have also been initiated. These excavations have come to prove
that Armenian identity has been present in the lower stream of
Khachenaget (former region of Aghdam) at least since the first century
B.C.