A research article entitled “Aššurbanipal (669-627 B.C.) and Sarduri of Urartu: The Transformation of Assyrian-Urartian Horizontal Relations into a Vertical Relationship,” co-authored by Ruslan Tsakanyan, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, and Artur Melikyan, Head of the Department of History at Vanadzor State University, has been published in the first issue of the international peer-reviewed academic journal Studia Antiqua et Archaeologica for 2026. The article is available in open access.

The study examines the political culture of interstate relations in the ancient Near East, with particular emphasis on diplomatic protocol and the conventions governing relations with political entities of equal or subordinate status.

The full article is available at: http://saa.uaic.ro/32-1-4/