Haroutune Kalayan
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Haroutune Kalayan (June 2, 1908 – December 21, 2003) was an Armenian-Lebanese archaeologist and engineer known for his contributions to the preservation and restoration of ancient sites in the Middle East.
Kalayan was born in 1908 in Aintab, Türkiye. In 1915, during the Armenian genocide, his older brother and father were massacred, forcing him to move with his mother and brother to Aleppo in Syria. He attended Aleppo College. Later, he enrolled at the American University of Beirut where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering in 1946.[1]