Armenia - Cradle of Civilization

List of contents

1. Land and People 2. Earliest Man in Armenia 3. Early Farming, Community Life and Technology in Armenia 4. Urartu – Armenia’s First Nation State 5. The Forging of the Armenian Nation 6. Triumph and Decline – Tigranes the Great and After 7. Early Christian Armenia 8. Armenia, Byzantium and the Arabs 9. Cilician Armenia and the Crusades 10. Christian Architecture and the Arts 11. Literature and Learning 12. Death and Resurrection.

Summary

Originally published in 1970, this book is the result of many years of study and research in the field. It begins with a geographic and ethnic survey of the land and Armenian people and traces the land’s prehistory back to the Old Stone Age.

Additional text

‘It is no overstatement to say that the work… is one of the most informative monographs on the ancient land of Armenia that has been published…. David Marshall Lang is a caucasiologist of the first rank’ Gustav Glaesser, East and West, Vol 23, 1/2, 1973.

Product details

• Authors: David Marshall Lang, Lang David Marshall
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781032169156
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3216915-6
• No. of pages: 332
• Series: David Marshall Lang's Journey from Russia to Armenia via Caucasian Georgia
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, prehistory, HISTORY / General, Social & cultural history, Armenia, Politics & government, Social and cultural history, Politics and government, Asian History, Regional Geography, HISTORY / Russia / General