Urartu Empire: Urartu - Armenia imprimir
 
Many experts, including historians, archeologists, ethnographers and armeniologists, have discussed the connection Urartu – Armenia for a long time. Currently, the joint study of the history of Urartu and the history of ancient Armenia is considered logical and appropriate, for they represent successive phases of the social, ethnical and cultural development of the region.
The Behistun inscription has perpetuated the equation Urartu-Armenia for the posterity. At the beginning of the reign of Dario the Great (521 – 486 before this Era) a series of insurrections against the Persian could occur across the Aquemenida empire. Dario ordered to engrave the cited trilingual inscription. Armenia appears there mentioned as Armina or Armniya (Persian), Urashtu (Babylonian) and Harminu (Elamite). We can see here that, 70 years after their fall, the Babylonian continued to call them the same way, while the elamite, farther to Armenia than the Babylonian, called them Harminu. This inevitably leads us to conclude that Urartu and Armenia are synonyms. Each people just named the armenian with a particular name.
Besides, the anthropological and cranium studies of Hurrians and Urartians on one side, and Urartians on the other side, show that the armenian have inherited from the Hurrians and the Urartians their basic anthropological characteristics.
The cultural continuity between Urartu and Armenia has been established in many fields: Urbanism, Architecture, Construction Techniques, Pottery and Metallurgy. All basic elements of the ornamental subjects of the armenian manuscripts are classically developed in the called Urartian types. Not to mention the multiples objects and monuments which Urartian or armenian lineage has not been discovered yet.
Based on this, and taking into account the most recent investigations in different fields, we conclude that the unity Urartu-Armenia, far from being a theory, it has became today in a fundamental link of the ancient armenian and human history, link which finally could be unearth.
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