During his previous studies in the region of Karvatchar about 800 and in Artsakh overall 1600 monuments have been registered. “Now I can say for sure that their number is bigger as at that time the territories were not settled and many monuments were just unnoticeable. And now it is possible that monuments have been found by local residents which need to be studied,” the head of the organization said.

According to Karapetyan many monuments were preserved thanks to the circumstance that the Turkish population used them for their purposes – settled there, etc. and many cemeteries they destroyed on purpose. For instance, the Turks destroyed the cemetery of the Tsar village of the Karvatchar region and built a school with the pieces. “Inside the walls of the school, after the liberation I registered 133 cross stones and tombstones. This building with itself was a museum of cultural genocide,” he said.

Certain monuments were destroyed as a result of the war and many just disappeared. The monument scientist said that there are monuments which have history of 5th millennium BC starting from images on the rocks to the tombs which testify that the Armenians were natives. The notes found on all the cultural monuments testify about the existence of the Armenian element in the mentioned territory – it is the same hand and the same culture. For instance from the other side of Kur River in the territory of main Aghvank it is completely another culture. Only Aghdam’s mosque and few Islamic tombs are the Azerbaijani monuments and the authors and architectures of those tombs, Karapetyan says, are of Armenian decent.