Culture & sport

Coin of Octavian Augustus and dagger found at Metsamor site

The state non-commercial organization Service for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserves and Historical Environment is conducting excavations at the ancient site adjacent to the Metsamor Historical-Archaeological Museum-Reserve. According to the organization, gold earrings, a button, a coin of the Roman Emperor Octavian Augustus and a bronze dagger have been found. The finds date to the Late Bronze Age, the Iron Age and antiquity.