Who wrote Armenian history?
Paul Henze tells us, in his THE ROOTS OF ARMENIAN VIOLENCE: Armenian history is not easy to study. It is long, complex, sometimes obscure and often controversial. There are rich records to draw upon, but texts and traditions have not been as meticulously and critically examined by independent scholars as those of many other old nations. The history of Egypt, or Greece and Rome, for example, has been written primarily by people who are not directly descended from the ancient civilizations. Texts and inscriptions bearing on the history of these societies have been studied from all possible directions by scholars who have no emotional interest in using them as a basis for glorifying the distant past of the peoples involvedthough some, of course, have done so. Armenian history has been studied and written almost entirely by Armenians. 2) Have Armenians had a tendency to… ehhh… “exaggerate” the facts? If you’ve spent more than two minutes on this site, you already know the answer to tha
