Hamlet Petrosyan

Petrosyan was born in 1955 in the village of Khnatsakh in what was then Askeran district of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast.^[1] He graduated from the Department of Archaeology of Yerevan State University (YSU) and completed his post-graduate studies at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of Armenian SSR.^[1][2]

Petrosyan started his career at Armenia's State Museum of Ethnography as chief of the Paleoanthropology Department. Since 1981, he has been a senior research fellow at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of Armenia's Academy of Sciences. Petrosyan was a visiting professor on archaeology and anthropology at his alma mater, YSU, between 1992 and 2006. In 2007 he was named Chair of Cultural Studies at YSU.^[1]

Petrosyan has led excavations in Shushi, Handaberd, and most notably, the ancient site of Tigranakert in Artsakh.^[1][3][4] He has described Tigranakert as “the best-preserved city of the Hellenistic and Armenian civilizations.”^[5]

Patrosyan's English publications include:^[6]

• Petrosyan H., Kalantaryan A., Karakhanyan G., Melkonyan H., Armenia in the Cultural Context of East and West. Ceramics and Glass (4th - 14th centuries), Yerevan, 2009
• Petrosyan H., Khachkar: the Origin, Functions, Iconography and Semantics, 2010
• H. L. Petrosyan, N. Sweezy, Armenian Folk Arts, Culture and Identity, Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana Univ. Press, 2001, p. 3-22