Selected Writings of
Igor M. Diakonoff*

Maps of historical Armenia and the Middle East are available on our Maps page.
Chronologies are available on the Chronological Tables page.

The Pre-history of the Armenian People
(New York, 1984)

Map 1. Schematic Map of Western Asia in the 3rd through the Beginning of the 2nd Millennia B.C. (Ethnic situation).

The Hittite and the Hurrian Social Structure; The Significance of the Data on the Hittite Social Structure for the History of Armenia.

The History of the Armenian Highlands in the Middle Bronze and Early Iron Ages.

Map 2. Schematic Map of Western Asia at the Time of the Hittite Empire (ca. 1500-1200 B.C.

Map 3. Schematic Map of Western Asia at the Beginning of the 1st Millennium B.C. (9-7th Centuries B.C.).

Bibliography.

"Evidence on the Ethnic Division of the Hurrians"
(Winona Lake, Indiana, 1981)

Evidence on the Ethnic Division of the Hurrians

"Hurro-Urartian Borrowings in Old Armenian"
from the Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 105, No. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 1985), pp. 597-603

Hurro-Urartian Borrowings in Old Armenian

"Ассиро-вавилонские источники по истории Урарту [Assyro-Babylonian Sources for the History of Urartu]"

Предисловие, разделы I-III - Вестник древней истории, № 2, 1951 г. Раздел IV - Вестник древней истории, № 3, 1951 г.

Ассиро-вавилонские источники по истории Урарту, at annals.xlegio.ru.

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The Rural Community in the Ancient Near East, from Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Vol. 18, No. 2 (Jun., 1975), pp. 121-133, in 14 pdf pages. File size: 1.5 MB.

Some Reflections on Numerals in Sumerian towards a History of Mathematical Speculation, from Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 103, No. 1, Studies in Literature from the Ancient Near East, by Members of the American Oriental Society, Dedicated to Samuel Noah Kramer (Jan. - Mar., 1983), pp. 83-93, in 12 pdf pages. File size: 1.9 MB.

The Internal Dynamics of the Early State [and Comments and Reply], Diakonoff and others, from Current Anthropology, Vol. 25, No. 4 (Aug. - Oct., 1984), pp. 365-379, in 16 pdf pages. File size: 2.7 MB.

Women in Old Babylonia Not under Patriarchal Authority, from Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Oct., 1986), pp. 225-238, in 15 pdf pages. File size: 1.5 MB.

Some Effects of the Hurro-Urartian People and Their Languages upon the Earliest Armenians, by John A. C. Greppin, and I. M. Diakonoff, from Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 111, No. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 1991), pp. 720-730, in 12 pdf pages. File size: 1.7 MB.

The Naval Power and Trade of Tyre, from Israel Exploration Journal, Vol. 42, No. 3/4 (1992), pp. 168-193, in 27 pdf pages. File size: 2.2 MB.