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📚Armenia🇦🇲, Yerevan, Matenadaran

🔶Matenadaran translates from ancient Armenian as "book depository", is the world's largest repository of ancient manuscripts.

🔶Matenadaran was established in 1959 . as a research institute of Ancient manuscripts. For many centuries, despite the constant devastating wars and destruction, monuments of writing were collected and stored in the Etchmiadzin monastery. To this day, it has been possible to preserve manuscripts from the time of the appearance of the Armenian script, as well as collections of documents in Arabic, Syriac, Greek, Russian and other languages. This is the real pride of the Armenian people. Matenadaran is of great value for researchers of the history, philosophy and science of Transcaucasia, the Near and Middle East. In addition, lovers of applied arts will be able to find interesting examples of leather embossing, samples of ancient fabrics, artistic metal forging — all that was used in book printing.
https://earth.google.com/web/search/Matenadaran

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