Everything has a memory. Monuments can be devastated, demolished and falsified. However, it is impossible to destroy the memory of a land and stone. You can possess the land which does not belong to you but it is out of the question to possess the things which live in its soul and memory.
Armenians have done their utmost effort to bully Yerevan from its historical roots and to introduce it as an Armenian city for 200 years. However, they still find the monuments which protect the traces of the possessors of Ancient Yerevan in regard with the archaeological excavations. Ancient Yerevan has descended over them like a nightmare for two centuries.
In 2003, it was decided to conduct repairs and improvements in the Republic Square (it was an area of the Ancient Yerevan Tower). At that time, when they removed the top asphalt layer to conduct excavations in the area, the remnants of the buildings made from red and black stones and red bricks, the water line and a great number of domestics objects came to the surface. The workers were floating on air. As they grew up with the fake history books which were made up by the Armenian historians, they supposed that they found the remnants of the ancient Armenian city.
Therefore, collaborators of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography were immediately invited here. However, Armenian archaeologists worked here only two days. The area where buildings came to the surface was swiftly filled with soil and sand in the third day. Chief archaeologist of Armenia, Narek Sargsyan explained in a peculiar way: ` These were not historical monuments but the basements of houses in Astafyev street. They do not have any historical value. Additionally we have not destroyed these monuments. They were filled with sand and preserved for next generations`.
However, Frina Babayan, one of three archaeologists working there at that time expressed a completely different opinion: ` These buildings were important to learn the culture of city building in XVII-XVIII centuries`.
Moreover, the Republic square and Abovyan street, where the detected monuments cover the area of Yerevan Tower. Abovyan street was called `Tower` street until mid - XIX century. After the invasion of the tower by Russians in 1827, the street was called Astafyev until mid – XIX century.
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