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Martiros Kavoukjian
Occupation	Architect
Nationality	Armenian
Period	1941-1988

Martiros Kavoukjianwas an Armenian architect and amateur Armenologist historian-archaeologist who has written various books on ancient Armenian history. He is best known for his national mysticist account of Armenian prehistory in Armenia, Subartu And Sumer, self-published in 1987 in both English and Armenian.

His works were lauded by Armenain nativist Rafael Ishkhanyan, but mostly ignored in Soviet academia.

Studies of Kavoukjian have been cited in Armenian nationalist literature, including works by Levon Shahinyan, Rafael Ishkhanyan , Anzhela Teryan , Karapet Sukiasyan , Alexander Varpetyan, Lily Stepanyan . Armenian archimandrite Gomidas Hovnanian in a 2006 interview expressed support for Kavoukjian's identification of Armenia as the "ancestral home of the Celtic tribes"

Works

• The Genesis of Armenian People, Montreal, 1982.
• Armenia, Subartu and Sumer, Montreal, 1989 ISBN 0921885008
• The origin of the names and Armen Aye, and Urartu, in the subway.) Beirut, 1973

Armenia, Subartu And Sumer

Armenia, Subartu And Sumer is inspired by the Armenian hypothesis of Indo-European origins. It seeks to establish an ethnic Armenian identity for the Armani mentioned by Naram-Sin, for "Armani-Subari connections" and "Armani-Subari-Sumer relations".

The English translation was published privately with the support of the Malkhassian Foundation, Montreal. The book is identified as a "chauvinist attempt to equate the Proto-Armenians with various mentioned peoples in cuneiform and classical sources" by P. Kohl and G. Tzetzkhladze (1996)

References

1. Rafael Ishkhanian, Patkerazard Patmutyun Hayots, Book 1, 1989, Arevik, ISBN 5-8077-0057-0 (5-8077-0057-0)
2. Rafael Ishkhanian, Patkerazard Patmutyun Hayots, Book 1, 1989, Arevik, ISBN 5-8077-0057-0 (5-8077-0057-0)
3. (in Armenian) Anjela Teryan, "The cult of Ar god in Armenia", Yerevan, Aghvank, 1995
4. (in Armenian) Karapet Sukiasyan, "Armens and Ararat", LA, 1996
5. L.G.Stepanyan, "Armenian (indo-European) stratus in the Polynesian languages", Vol. I, Yerevan, 2001
6. (in Russian) Асмик Гулакян, Родина всегда рядом// "Голос Армении", 4 Nov. 2006. Hovnanian is convinced that "the 'unknown country of the Celts' is Armenia (named "Aratta" by the Sumerians)". This question has been considered in detail by talented scientist Martiros Kavoukjian in his "the ancestral home of the Celtic tribes and Celtic-Caucasian connections", and more recently Ruben Egiazaryan has added his contribution to the topic with the book "Celtic symbolism and Armenian legend" (Yerevan, 2005, in Russian).
7. 'Nationalism, politics, and the practice of archaeology in the Caucasus', in: Kohl, Fawcett (eds.), Nationalism, Politics and the Practice of Archaeology, Cambridge University Press (1996), ISBN 0521558395, p. 176

See also

• Armenian nationalism
• Nationalism and archaeology

External links

• Martiros Kavoukjian at ArmeniaPedia.org

• Armenian writers
• Pseudohistory
• 1987 books