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Archaeological Investigations in Armenia and the South Caucasus

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 excavation database go to: http://db.aragats.net/.  To access the resource library, click here.

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

Announcements  The Archaeology and Geography of Ancient Transcaucasian Societies, Volume 1: The Foundations of Research and Regional Survey in the Tsaghkahovit Plain is now available for purchase or download from the Oriental Institute Press. Project ArAGATS was profiled in the spring 2009 newsletter of the Center for Russian East European & Eurasian Studies at the University of Chicago.  Read it here.  more news..