YEREVAN, NOVEMBER 20, ARMENPRESS. There are great expectations from the excavation of the archeological sites of Aragatsotn province (marz) of Armenia. In a conversation with "Armenpress" the Director of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, the Head of the Agarak Expedition Group Pavel Avetisyan stated that the excavations are still in progress. He said: "We have already discovered walls of a rather fortified construction. Notwithstanding it’s soon to speak about the character of the construction. We have excavated little statues and remainings dating back to the Early Bronze Age and the Iron Age."

The Director of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, the Head of the Agarak Expedition Group Pavel Avetisyan noted: "As per the construction of the North-West Road we are also planning excavations in other places nearby as well."

The excavation of archeological sites of Agarak kicked off in 2001. The results of the excavations show that this territory has been inhabited in the third millennium B. C. This place was also largely inhabited during the reign of the Artaxiad Dynasty and Orontid(Yervanduni) Dynasty.