YEREVAN HOLDS A CONFERENCE ENTITLED "URARTU AND ITS NEIGHBORS"

Aysor
Sept 22 2009
Armenia

The Culture centre "Tekeyan" holds a conference entitled "Urartu and
its Neighbors" in honor of Prof. Nikolay Harutyunyan on the occasion
of his 90th birthday.

Armenia’s minister of education and science Armen Ashotyan conveyed
to Nikolay Arutyunyan Medal of Ministry of Education and Science.

Prof. Harutyunyan is the preeminent scholar in Armenia, and one
of the world’s foremost scholars, on the subject of Urartu. He is
the director of the Department of Ancient Near East History at the
Institute of Oriental Studies, Academy of Sciences, in Armenia, as well
as a professor of history at the Yerevan Pedagogic University, where
he lectures on the history of the Ancient Near East, ancient Greece,
and ancient Rome. He is the author of 5 books and some 50 articles on
the history, language, and culture of Urartu and the Ancient Near East.

Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies Ruben Safrastyan handed
organization award and said: "you have got many awards but the one
from organization."

"Nikolay Arutyunyan’s Urartu Protocols do honor Armenian Studies
and Armenian people,’ said Academician and the Secretary of National
Academy of Sciences Vladimir Bakhudaryan.

Note scientists from Germany, Italy, USA, Spain, Iran and Armenia
partake in conference which will last till September, 24.