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    NAGORNO-KARABAKH GOVERNMENT WILL SUPPORT EXCAVATIONS IN TIGRANAKERT

    KarabakhOpen
    02-04-2008 10:40:28

    The government of Nagorno-Karabakh is likely to provide assistance
    for excavation of the ancient town of Tigranakert in NKR. According
    to Hamlet Petrosyan, head of the expedition of the Institute of
    Archeology and Ethnography of the Armenian National Academy of Science,
    the NKR government has allocated 30 million drams (USD 100 thousand)
    to continue the digging, Regnum reports.

    During the meeting with the archeologists the NKR president Bako
    Sahakyan promised to, Hamlet Petrosyan said, noting that unlike
    the government of NKR, the government of Armenia is not expected to
    provide assistance.

    "We have turned to Prime Minister Serge Sargsyan, the National
    Assembly, major businessmen, Viva Cell for a number of times but
    we were told that the government cannot afford to fund the project,
    and others did not even respond," said the head of the expedition.

    Last year only the Avetyats Yerkir NGO funded the excavations, and
    an area of one hectare was dug, which is only 2 percent of the total
    area of the archeological complex, Hamlet Petrosyan said. According to
    him, in 2007 the archeologists excavated the citadel and the church,
    a single-nave basilica built in the 6th century. All the findings
    are now kept at the Museum of History of Artsakh and the Museum of
    Shushi after study and restoration.

    The church belongs to the Armenian architecture since, the
    archeologists say, it is identical to the churches of Yeghvard,
    Jrvezh and other Armenian basilicas. The archeologists state that the
    early Christian burial places near Tigranakert are evidence that this
    territory of Artsakh (the historical name of Nagorno-Karabakh) was
    a hotbed of the early Christian civilization, and over 1.5 thousand
    years, up to the 14th century, people lived there.

    The archeologists say the lack of funding does not allow telling
    the international community about the results of excavations and
    the Armenian origin of the town, while the government of Azerbaijan
    funds media which describe those monuments as the cultural legacy of
    the Albanian population which allegedly lived in this territory and
    whose predecessors the Azerbaijanis consider themselves.

    The excavations in the town of Tigranakert founded by the Armenian
    King Tigran the Great began in 2007. The town is near the highway
    Stepanakert-Martakert, on the bank of the River Kakhtsraget, 28 km
    from the town of Martakert and 4 km from the town of Aghdam.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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