Nationality Armenian Name Karo Ghafadaryan | Fields History | |
Born April 20, 1907
Akhaltsikhe, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire (present-day Samtskhe-Javakheti, Georgia ( 1907-04-20 ) Notable awards Honored Worker of Science of the Armenian SSR (1961) Died December 21, 1976, Yerevan, Armenia | ||
Alma mater Yerevan State University | ||
Karo Ghafadaryan (Armenian: Կարո Ղաֆադարյան; April 20, 1907 – December 21, 1976) was a Soviet Armenian archaeologist, historian, epigraphist, philologist. He was the director of the History Museum of Armenia (1940–1965). "Under his guidance, the Museum became an advanced research and cultural-educational centre" in Armenia.
Born in Akhaltsikhe, he graduated from the Yerevan State University in 1931. Since 1932 he worked at the Institute of Culture History and took part in the excavations of Shengavit, Vagharshapat and other ancient locations. He supervised the excavations of the ruins of the medieval Armenian capital of Dvin for around three decades. Since 1959 until his death he headed the department of medieval archaeology of the Armenian Academy of Sciences.