Latest / The Story of Armenia: Survival Through Empires and Genocide — Fexingo History
The Armenian Alphabet: Mesrop Mashtots and a Nation's Voice
In the early 5th century, Armenia faced a cultural crisis: the country had no distinct written language, and the Church struggled to reach ordinary people. Enter Mesrop Mashtots, a former court secretary turned monk, who undertook a remarkable linguistic journey across the Caucasus. This episode follows Mashtots as he studies scripts from Edessa to Samosata, invents the Armenian alphabet in 405 AD, and sparks a golden age of translation and literacy. We explore the political pressures from Sassanian Persia and the Byzantine Empire that made this invention urgent, the role of the Catholicos…
The skinny
The skinny isn't ready yet — notes appear once the transcript is processed.