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Mittannian Common style cylinder seal from Gegharot fortress (ca. 1500-1350 BC)

Welcome... ...to the Home page of Project ArAGATS, the joint American-Armenian Project for the Archaeology and Geography of Ancient Transcaucasian Societies. Here you can find information on our ongoing research in Armenia, check on the progress of our analytical investigations, and learn how you can contribute to the mission of Project ArAGATS. You can also find information on upcoming educational events and ongoing plans for conserving local heritage.

Resources The ArAGATS website includes a variety of resources for project members and the public. To access the ArAGATS Tsaghkahovit Plain regional survey database, click here.  To access the password protected excavation database go to: http://aragats.net/aragats/.  To access the resource library, click here.

Early Bronze Age andiron fragment from Gegharot (ca. 2900-2400 BC)

Bone horse statuette from Tsaghkahovit lower town (ca. 600-300 BC)

Announcements The 2008 ArAGATS field season will be from June 26-August 10.  We will be working at Gegharot, Tsaghkahovit, and Aragatsiberd and welcome visitors to stop by our excavations. Lori Khatchadourian successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation, Social Logics under Empire: The Armenian 'Highland Satrapy' and Achaemenid Rule, ca. 600-300 BC, based on her excavations at Tsaghkahovit. more..