{"id":26218,"date":"2021-12-14T11:05:49","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T07:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hushardzan.am\/?p=26218"},"modified":"2021-12-14T17:21:06","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T13:21:06","slug":"%d5%b4%d5%a5%d5%ae%d5%a1%d5%b4%d5%b8%d6%80%d5%a8-%d6%87-%d5%a1%d5%b4%d5%a5%d5%b6%d5%a1%d5%b0%d5%ab%d5%b6-%d5%b8%d5%bd%d5%af%d5%a5-%d5%a6%d5%a1%d6%80%d5%a4%d5%a5%d6%80%d5%a8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hushardzan.am\/en\/archives\/26218","title":{"rendered":"Metsamor and the oldest gold jewelry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During the excavations in the ancient site of Metsamor which is taking place more than fifty years, the citadel with palace and economic buildings, the unique shrines with alters, the \u201cobservatory\u201d for viewing the celestial bodies , the \u201cworkshop\u201d of smelters and foundries representing\u00a0 the complete cycle of metalworking, Early Bronze Age raw brick dwellings, with round plan,\u00a0 Late Bronze-Iron Age urban district and a huge tomb have been opened.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The collection of the museum consists of about 28.000 artefacts,\u00a0 8.500 of which are on display in the main exhibition. It covers the Chalcolithic (Copper Stone) era, which lasted\u00a0 from the\u00a0 5-4th\u00a0 mil BC\u00a0 to the 17-18th centuries AD-(Late Middle Ages). According to the showcases, present\u00a0 in detail the history of the\u00a0 old settlement, and\u00a0 also\u00a0 the\u00a0 military-political, economic, commercial, socio-cultural history of one of the most important cities\u00a0 of the Armenian Highlands. The museum also exhibits the\u00a0 reconstruction of the tomb of Late Bronze Age.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unique luxury artefacts made of gold, tin, silver, amber, cornelian, paste are on\u00a0 desplay in a special underground exhibition hall. At\u00a0 the ancient site of Metsamor was found the oldest gold jewelry known on the territory of Armenia, which is displayed in the special hall of the museum.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the excavations in the ancient site of Metsamor which is taking place more than fifty years, the citadel with palace and economic buildings, the unique [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":26224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,64],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hushardzan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hushardzan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hushardzan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hushardzan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hushardzan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hushardzan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hushardzan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hushardzan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hushardzan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hushardzan.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}