{"id":306100,"date":"2026-10-13T23:09:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T19:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=306100"},"modified":"2026-10-19T11:48:47","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T07:48:47","slug":"following-public-outrage-the-wording-was-changed-to-unknown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/306100\/","title":{"rendered":"Following public outrage, the wording was changed to &#8220;unknown&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>The description of a bronze belt in the exhibition at the History Museum of Armenia originally read: &ldquo;Eastern Anatolia, Turkey.&rdquo; Following public criticism, the wording was changed, but questions remain: why did the Armenian museum not contest the foreign partner&rsquo;s description, and who was responsible for its scientific verification?<\/p>\n<p>Historian Armen Ayvazyan examines the issue in the context of the name and geography of historical Armenia. Museum Director Davit Poghosyan presents his explanation.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"video_container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&#1344;&#1377;&#1398;&#1408;&#1377;&#1397;&#1387;&#1398; &#1377;&#1394;&#1396;&#1400;&#1410;&#1391;&#1387;&#1409; &#1392;&#1381;&#1407;&#1400; &#1393;&#1415;&#1377;&#1391;&#1381;&#1408;&#1402;&#1400;&#1410;&#1396;&#1384; &#1411;&#1400;&#1389;&#1406;&#1381;&#1409;, &#1380;&#1377;&#1408;&#1393;&#1377;&#1406; &laquo;&#1377;&#1398;&#1392;&#1377;&#1397;&#1407;&raquo;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dHekB8LoFOc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The description of a bronze belt in the exhibition at the History Museum of Armenia originally read: &ldquo;Eastern Anatolia, Turkey.&rdquo; Following public criticism, the wording was changed, but questions remain: why did the Armenian museum not contest the foreign partner&rsquo;s description, and who was responsible for its scientific verification? Historian Armen Ayvazyan examines the issue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":304840,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-reports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306101,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306100\/revisions\/306101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}