On May 8, a memorial evening was held in honor of two late founding members of the Carahunge Armenological Center — geologist and cultural scholar Hovhannes Azizbekyan, and chemist-scientist, public figure, and President of the Green Union of Armenia, Hakob Sanasaryan.
During the evening, relatives, friends, and colleagues shared their memories of our prematurely departed friends and colleagues.
During the event, linguist Leila Stepanyan presented Hovhannes Azizbekyan’s final work, “Masis or Ararat”, which he did not have the chance to complete and present to the public.
On April 30, the 83rd meeting of the Carahunge Armenological Cultural Center was held, in cooperation with the National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia.
Topic: “The Issue of Armenian Words of Unknown Origin in the Context of Nostratic Linguistics (in comparison with Finno-Ugric languages)”
Speaker: Gohar Nikoghosyan, PhD in Philology, Associate Professor at the Department of Foreign Languages of the National Polytechnic University of Armenia.
On April 23, the 82nd meeting of the Carahunge Armenological Center was held in cooperation with the National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia.
Topic: “Quantum Universe and Life as an Illusion.”
Speaker: Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor Ashot Gevorgyan (National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia).
On April 18, the team of the Carahunge Armenological Center hosted 10th-grade students from Yerevan’s Manuel Kajuni High School No. 54. The initiative for the meeting came from the mathematics teacher, who approached our Center with a request for our specialists to introduce the students to Carahunge, as they were working on a project that included the study of the Carahunge observatory. It is worth noting that the students had already read a considerable amount of material about the Carahunge observatory and came well prepared.
The Armenological Center team gladly accepted the proposal, convinced that the preservation and proper appreciation of Carahunge cannot be fully achieved without educating and engaging the younger generation. We are always pleased to share our knowledge with them.
During the meeting, the Director of the Carahunge Armenological Center, Nana Heruni, presented the Carahunge observatory in detail, discussing its scientific and cultural significance, as well as its connection to cosmic phenomena. Presentations were also delivered by Center members Hrachik Hakobjanyan and Garnik Stepanyan.
We hope that the students gained new knowledge that evening, and that their interest in ancient historical monuments—particularly the Carahunge observatory—will continue to grow in the future. They also expressed their willingness to stay connected with the Center and to participate in the celebration of the summer solstice.
On April 17, the 81st meeting of the Carahunge Armenological Center took place in collaboration with the National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia.
Topic: “The Ancient Layers of Ritual Songs and Their Symbolism”
Speaker: Marianna Tigranyan — musicologist, folklorist, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Arts of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Candidate of Art Studies, Associate Professor at the Yerevan Komitas State Conservatory, and Researcher at the Komitas Museum-Institute.
On April 10, the 80th meeting of the Carahunge Armenological Center took place at the National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia.
Topic: “The Proto-Languages of the World and Their Places of Origin from the Perspective of Different Sciences.”
The lecture was devoted to examining the issue that in the 19th century, the world’s languages were classified into approximately 60 language families without considering whether there were, in fact, around 60 corresponding regions on Earth where humans could have originated and survived under favorable conditions. A broad-scale study is conducted and presented, suggesting that only 5–8 such regions can be identified, although paleoanthropology has recognized only East Africa as the cradle of humankind.
Speaker: Hrachik Hakobjanyan, linguist, Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor at the Department of Linguistics of Yerevan Brusov State University, and founding member of the Carahunge Armenological Center.
