Employees of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography participated in the conference titled "Epigraphy in Historical Armenia."

Within the framework of the project "The Tradition of Epigraphy in the Armenian Highlands: From the Kingdom of Van to the Late Middle Ages" (headed by Arsen Harutyunyan, Ph.D.), implemented with the support of the Science Committee of the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture, and Sport of the Republic of Armenia, an international workshop on epigraphy was held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

The workshop was organized under the chairmanship of the project's foreign partner, Dr. Andreas Robbi. During the workshop, entitled “Epigraphy in Historical Armenia”, presentations were delivered by Arsen Harutyunyan, Head of the Department of Epigraphy of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography (topic: The Tradition of Creating Epigraphs in Medieval Armenia); Hayk Gyulamiryan, Junior Researcher at the Department of Ancient Archaeology (topic: The Roman Legions in Armenia in the Light of Epigraphs); and Vahe Sargsyan, Junior Researcher at the Institute of History (topic: The Written Culture of the Kingdom of Van). Throughout the workshop, Armenian and international specialists presented the distinctive features of epigraphic heritage across various historical periods, from the Kingdom of Van to the late Middle Ages.