ArmenPress, Armenia
June 15 2018


Joint American-Armenian, Italian-Armenian expedition teams engaged in
archaeological excavations in Vayots Dzor, Kotayk



YEREVAN, JUNE 15, ARMENPRESS. Two joint expedition teams, one
American-Armenian and the other Italian-Armenian, have begun
excavations in the archaeological sites of Vayots Dzor and Kotayk
provinces in Armenia.

RobertoDan, team leader of the Armenian-Italian expedition team, who
is studying Urartian archaeology, told ARMENPRESS that the sites of
the two provinces have great potential in terms of Urartian
archaeology.

“These areas aren’t well studied. The Kingdom of Van was the first
state formation in the Armenian Highlands and the details of its
formation and spread are very interesting”, he said.

Tiffany Spadoni from the American-Armenian team says Armenia is a
country having pretty interesting morphology in terms of military
landscape. Spadoni deals with studying military landscape.

Thirty monuments were discovered in 2017 in the Yegheghis Valley.

Edited and translated by Stepan Kocharyan