Armenia

The sources of the great rivers which carried me southwards, a lake with the dimensions of an inland sea, the mountain of the Ark, the fabled seat of Paradise.

H. F. B. Lynch — Armenia: Travels and Studies, Volume I (1901)

For your coffee table

Armenia

Art, Religion, and Trade in the Middle Ages

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Illuminated manuscripts, reliquaries and monasteries, with site photographs by Hrair Hawk Khatcherian.

Hardcover with dust jacket · 282 colour illustrations

24 × 28 cm

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The opening spread of Armenia, with the monastery of Khor Virap on its rocky hill below snow-covered Mount Ararat and the book title across the sky.

Some of my Instagram posts from Armenia

Olga among vineyard rows with Armenia’s mountains beyond.

Olga visiting an ancient stone monastery in Armenia.

The warm stone buildings and clock tower of Republic Square in Yerevan.