
Yervand Grekyan
Position | Leading researcher |
Scientific degree | Doctor of Historical Sciences |
Title |
Education
High |
Areas of researches/ Research Interests
History and historical geography, writing (cuneiform) culture, spiritual culture, social relations and economic history, archaeology and palaeoenvironment of the Armenian Highland and the ancient Near East of the II-I millennia BC |
Professional activity
2004-2022 | Associate Professor at the Department of World History and Its Teaching Methods of the Faculty of History and Jurisprudence, Armenian State Pedagogical University after Khachatur Abovyan, Yerevan. |
2005-2021 | Invited Professor at the Department of Iranian Studies of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, Yerevan State University. |
1999-present | Leading researcher at the Department of Ancient Orient, Institute of Oriental Studies, NAS RA. |
2018-present | Leading researcher at the Department of Early Archaeology of Armenia, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, NAS RA. |
Participation in conferences
City-Building Mindset in Biainili-Urartu, “From Khosrov Kotak to Karo Ghafadaryan”, Republican Conference Dedicated to the 110th Anniversary of Karo Ghafadaryan, Service for the Protection of Historical Environment and Cultural Museum-Reservations NCSO, June 17, 2017, Yerevan. |
Halley’s Comet and Haldi’s Diniriaše, “Metsamorian Readings I”. International Conference Dedicated to the Results of Excavations and Field Surveys of the Archaeological Site of Metsamor in 2016, September 27-28, 2017, Yerevan – Metsamor. |
Etiunians in the Neo-Assyrian Sources?, Archaeological Heritage of the Land Uduri-Etiuni. Conference Dedicated to the Memory of the Prominent Armenian Archaeologist Ashkharbek Kalantar, February 11-13, 2020, Yerevan. |
New Evidences on Carpet-Making in Urartu, “Woman in the East”, International Conference, September 22-23, 2022, Yerevan. |
Climate Migrants: The Case of “Catacomb Culture”. Republican Conference “Migration Processes in the Armenian Highland from the Ancient Times to the XX Century”, December 19, 2022, Yerevan. |
Professional unions
Association for Near-Eastern and Caucasian Studies, Yerevan, Armenia, co-founder. |
ISMEO — Associazione Internazionale di Studi sul Mediterraneo e l’Oriente (International Association of Studies on the Mediterranean and the East), Rome, Italy, Foreign corresponding member. |
List of published books
State Pantheon of Urartu, “Biainili-Urartu. Gods, Temples, Cults” (collective monography, co-authors: M. Badalyan, N. Tiratsyan, A. Petrosyan), Yerevan: Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography Press, pp. 7-75. |
Cult Buildings in Biainili-Urartu, “Biainili-Urartu. Gods, Temples, Cults” (collective monography, co-authors: M. Badalyan, N. Tiratsyan, A. Petrosyan), Yerevan: Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography Press, pp. 76-109. |
The Kingdom of Urartu, in: K. Radner, N. Moeller, D.T. Potts (eds). The Oxford History of the Ancient Near East, vol. IV: 769-864. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
List of published articles
The Word for ‘Wine’ in the Urartian Language, “Etchmiadzin”, Etchmiadzin, 2017, issue 1, pp. 41-54 (in Armenian with summaries in Russian and English). |
Carl Friedrich Lehmann-Haupt and the Urartian King List: On the Problem of “Three Rusas”, VEM. Pan-Armenian Journal, Yerevan, 2017, no. 2 (58), pp. 23-37 (in Armenian with summaries in English and Russian). |
Population Losses of the Armenian Highland in the Period of Urartian Campaigns, “Ancient and Medieval Armenia and His Neighbors”, The Collection of Papers in Honour of Academician Gagik Sargsyan on the Occasion of His 90th Birthday, “Oriental Studies in Armenia 3”, Yerevan, 2017, pp. 52-68 (in Armenian with summary in English). |
City-Building Mindset in Biainili-Urartu, “From Khosrov Kotak to Karo Ghafadaryan”, Republican Conference Dedicated to the 110th Anniversary of Karo Ghafadaryan, Paper Reports, Yerevan, 2017, pp. 48-52. |
Foreword, in: P. Avetisyan, Y. Grekyan 2017 (eds.), Bridging Times and Spaces. Papers in Ancient Near Eastern, Mediterranean and Armenian Studies Honouring Gregory E. Areshian on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday, Oxford: Archaeopress, p. iii (co-author Pavel Avetisyan). |
The Settlement Size and Population Estimation of the Urartian Cities, in: P. Avetisyan, Y. Grekyan 2017 (eds.), Bridging Times and Spaces. Papers in Ancient Near Eastern, Mediterranean and Armenian Studies Honouring Gregory E. Areshian on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday, Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 103-132. |
Halley’s Comet and Haldi’s Diniriaše, “Metsamorian Readings I” (Selected scientific articles), Yerevan, 2017, pp. 285-597 (in Armenian with summary in English). |
The City-Building and Town-Planning Mindset in Biainili-Urartu, “Historical-Philological Journal”, no. 1 (207), Yerevan, 2018, pp. 225-255 (in Armenian with summaries in Russian and English). |
‘Some I Killed, Some I Took Alive’: The Impact of War on the Local Population in the Urartian Period, “Ancient West & East”, Leuven, vol. 17, 2018, pp. 143-160. |
Urartian Cuneiform School, “VEM. Pan-Armenian Journal”, Yerevan, 2018, no. 2 (62), pp. 44-73 (in Armenian with summaries in English and Russian). |
The Fortress of Erebuni, “Historical-Philological Journal”, no. 3 (209), Yerevan, 2018, pp. 36-68 (in Armenian with summaries in Russian and English). |
The Problem of the Origin of the Urartian Scribal School, in: P. Avetisyan, R. Dan and Y. H. Grekyan 2019 (eds.). Over the Mountains and Far Away. Studies in Near Eastern History and Archaeology presented to Mirjo Salvini on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday, Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology, 244-262. |
Evidence of celestial phenomena in Urartian cuneiform texts?. ARAMAZD, Armenian Journal of Near-Eastern Studies, Yerevan, vol. XIII, issue 1, 2019, pp. 81-100. |
The Urartian Stela in the Ancient Near Eastern Context (Preliminary Observations), “Vishap between Fairy Tale and Reality”, eds. A. Bobokhyan, A. Gilibert, P. Hnila, Yerevan: Publishing House of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, 2019, pp. 439-449. |
Climate Changes and the End of the Urartian State, “Herald of Social Sciences”, no. 2 (656), Yerevan, 2019, pp. 35-71 (in Armenian with summaries in Russian and English). |
To be a “Biainian”: Some Textual and Archaeological Manifestations, Aramazd: Armenian Journal of Near-Eastern Studies, Yerevan, vol. XIV, issue 1-2, 2020, pp. 139-152. |
The Crisis of the 7th Century BC” and the Problem of Formation of the Median Empire, “Historical-Philological Journal”, no. 1 (216), Yerevan, 2021, pp. 192-218 (in Armenian with summaries in Russian and English). |
The “Bilingual” Inscription of Upper Anzaf and Some Issues of the Urartian Weight System, “Herald of Social Sciences”, no. 1 (661), Yerevan, 2021, pp. 12-27 (in Armenian with summaries in Russian and English). |
Storage and Redistribution of Grain Reserves in the Kingdom of Urartu, “Historical-Philological Journal”, no. 3 (218), Yerevan, 2021, pp. 203-227 (in Armenian with summaries in Russian and English). |
On the Urartian Weight System: An Examination, Ancient Near Eastern Studies, vol. 58, 2021, pp. 135-146. |
Redistribution Abilities of an Ancient Near Eastern State: The Case of Urartu, in: M. Herles, C. Beuger, J. Becker, S. Arnhold (eds), Von Syrien bis Georgien – durch die Steppen Vorderaisens. Festschrift für Felix Blocher anlässlich seines 65. Geburtstages (marru 13): 185-206. Münster: Zaphon. |
Introduction: The Current State of Urartian Studies, in: G.R. Tsetskhladze 2021 (ed.), Archaeology and History of Urartu (Biainili), “Colloquia Antiqua”, vol. 28, Leuven: Peeters, pp. 1-37. |
Dwellings of the Gods: Urartian Temples and Sanctuaries, in: G.R. Tsetskhladze 2021 (ed.), Archaeology and History of Urartu (Biainili), “Colloquia Antiqua”, vol. 28, Leuven: Peeters, pp. 173-203. |
Karmir Blur, in: G.R. Tsetskhladze 2021 (ed.), Archaeology and History of Urartu (Biainili), “Colloquia Antiqua”, vol. 28, Leuven: Peeters, pp. 651-680. |
How deep the Assyrian spies penetrated in Urartu? On the location of the “Land of Wazae”, State Archives of Assyria Bulletin, vol. 27, 2021, pp. 77-91. |
The “Megadrought” at the End of the 3rd Millennium BC and the Problem of Origin of Vishap Stone Stelae, Herald of Social Sciences”, no. 2 (665), Yerevan, 2022, pp. 223-249 (in Armenian with summaries in Russian and English). |
The 5.2 ka BP Climate Event and the Armenian Highland, “Historical-Philological Journal”, no. 3 (221), Yerevan, 2022, pp. 203-233 (in Armenian with summaries in Russian and English). |
Etiuni and Etiunians in Neo-Assyrian Cuneiform Sources?, in: M. Badalyan, K. Martirosyan-Olshansky, A. Bobokhyan (eds), Armenia Maritima. Archaeological Heritage of the Land Uduri-Etiuni, Yerevan, Publishing House of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, 2022, pp. 264-272 (in Armenian with summaries in Russian and English). |
Two Hurro-Urartian Lexical Parallels, Altorientalische Forschungen, vol. 49/1, 2022, Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 48-52. |
The Median Empire and the Highstand Waters of the Caspian Sea, in: Boardman J., Hargrave J., Avram A., Podossinov A. 2022 (eds.). Connecting the Ancient West and East. Studies Presented to Prof. Gocha R. Tsetskhladze, vol. I. Leuven – Paris – Bristol, CT: Peeters, pp. 1125-1145. |
The Kura-Araxes ‘Expansion’: A Climate-Change-Related Phenomenon? In A. Kosyan, P. Avetisyan, K. Martirosyan-Olshansky, A. Bobokhyan, and Y. Grekyan (eds), Paradise Lost: The Phenomenon of the Kura-Araxes Tradition along the Fertile Crescent. Collection of papers honouring Ruben S. Badalyan on the occassion of his 65th birthday (Aramazd: Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 2022, vol. 16, issues 1-2), pp. 182-210. Oxford: Archaeopress. |
Foreword. In Y. H. Grekyan and A. A. Bobokhyan (eds), Systemizing the Past. Papers in Near Eastern and Caucasian Archaeology Dedicated to Pavel S. Avetisyan on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday, pp. iii-iv. Oxford: Archaeopress (co-author: Arsen Bobokhyan). |
Climate Change and the Transition from the Early to the Middle Bronze Age in the Armenian Highland. In Y. H. Grekyan and A. A. Bobokhyan (eds), Systemizing the Past. Papers in Near Eastern and Caucasian Archaeology Dedicated to Pavel S. Avetisyan on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday, pp. 149-161. Oxford: Archaeopress. |
The Structure of the “Annald of Sarduri” and Some Chronological Issues, Historical and Cultural Heritage. Collection of Scientific Articles IV, Yerevan, Service for the Protection of Historical Environment and Cultural Museum-Reservations NCSO, 2023, pp. 111-126 (in Armenian with summaries in Russian and English). |