Prior to summing up the working year, the “Preservation Service,” SNCO, summarized the problems that arose during daily work and discussed effective ways of solving them.
Starting from September, excavations have been carried out in the territory of Metsamor. Armenian-Polish expedition leader, scientific secretary of Service for the Protection of Historical Environment and Cultural Museum-Reservations, SNCO, Ashot Piliposyan mentions that excavations at the mausoleum of the site resulted in the opening of a five-meter wide and twelve-meter long tomb made of giant tuff and basalt stones. About 0.8 meters deep, in the center of the cell, phallus (from tuff) and a statue of an upper part of the female’s body buried as a tombstone material, dated back to the iron age, have been found.
Within the framework of the long-term CIS Interstate program “Heritage of Cooperation: Traditions for the Future” organized by Decorative-applied and Pan-Russian museum of folk art and Russian Art museum of Yerevan, participants from CIS member states visited “Zvartnots” historical-cultural museum-reservation.
