French Ambassador to Armenia Henri Reynaud, accompanied with deputy culture minister Arev Samuelyan, embassy's advisor on cultural cooperation affairs Jean-Paul Martens, visited today Erebuni fortress.
According to the press release of the Erebuni historic-cultural reserve-museum, from June 5 the 2012-2015 program on joint Armenian-French excavations launched financed by the Erebuni museum-reserve, French Foreign and Culture ministries.
Together with the museum's director Gagik Gyurjyan and Archeology and Ethnography Institute director P. Avetisyan the ambassador toured in the excavation area.
Speaking to reporters, Henri Reynaud said archeology allows understanding who you are, where you come from and where you are going to. "Archeological researches are quite important as they answer to the questions about identity," he said, adding that he knows only Erebuni as Armenia's rich historic sites, but is planning to visit the other historical sites as well.
Head of the archeological group Stéphane Deschamps and François Fichet de Clairfontaine presented the goal of the excavation and its significance. Deschamps said Erebuni is interesting archeological site from the point of view of both its architecture and discovered archeological samples.
Director of the reserve-museum informed the ambassador that together with their French colleagues they are already working over a joint exhibition to be entitled "Erebuni: Yesterday and Today."
Saturday, June 23, 2012
French ambassador hosted at Erebuni historic-cultural reserve-museum
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