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Armenia's First Alphabet Mesrop Mashtots and the Birth of a Nation
In this episode of The Story of Armenia, Lucas and Luna explore the extraordinary story of Mesrop Mashtots, the monk who created the Armenian alphabet in 405 AD. They discuss how Mashtots, working with King Vramshapuh and Catholicos Sahak Partev, developed a 36-letter script that gave Armenians a written identity. The conversation covers the invention's political and religious context—how the alphabet was a shield against assimilation by the Persian Sassanid Empire and the Byzantine church. They delve into the translation of the Bible, known as the 'Queen of Translations,' and…
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