A abundant description of the aerial area and its bodies was accustomed in the Armenian cartography basis Ashharatsuyts accounting by Anania Shirakatsi in the 7th aeon AD12 (or possibly by Moses of Chorene in the 5th century.3) According to the aboriginal Ashharatsuyts mapping reconstructed by Acad. Suren T. Eremian, the abundance arrangement was disconnected into four branches (green dots in the map) agnate appropriately to four present ranges:
Southern Imeon (‘Emavon’ in Armenian): Hindu Kush;
Southeastern Imeon: Badakhshan and Pamir;
Northern Imeon: Alay Mountains and the Tian Shan ranges anchored arctic of Fergana Valley;
Northeastern Imeon: axial and eastern allotment of Tian Shan
The mountains belted the acreage of China in the east, India in the south, Aria in the west (the arena about avant-garde Herat, apparent as ‘Arya’ on Eremian's map1), and Khwarezm in the northwest.
The abundance arrangement was beyond by a articulation of the Silk Road arch westwards from Yarkand to the Stone Tower in eastern Pamir (mentioned by Ptolemy, and apparent on the Ashharatsuyts map too), again through the Wakhan Corridor and Badakhshan to ability the age-old above burghal of Balh (Balkh). An another Northern Silk Road4 went from Kashgar to high Alay Valley, again beyond the Alay Mountains to access Fergana Valley.
Mount Imeon was acclaimed for its lapis lazuli deposits in western Badakhshan, adumbrated on Shirakatsi’s map. The mines at Sar-e-Sang accept been bearing lapis lazuli for one millennia now, bartering the age-old civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, and Rome, and still acquiescent the world’s finest lapis. The Venetian charlatan Marco Polo visited the mines in 1271 during his acclaimed adventure to China, afterward the Silk Road to cantankerous the mountains by way of Wakhan.5
Southern Imeon (‘Emavon’ in Armenian): Hindu Kush;
Southeastern Imeon: Badakhshan and Pamir;
Northern Imeon: Alay Mountains and the Tian Shan ranges anchored arctic of Fergana Valley;
Northeastern Imeon: axial and eastern allotment of Tian Shan
The mountains belted the acreage of China in the east, India in the south, Aria in the west (the arena about avant-garde Herat, apparent as ‘Arya’ on Eremian's map1), and Khwarezm in the northwest.
The abundance arrangement was beyond by a articulation of the Silk Road arch westwards from Yarkand to the Stone Tower in eastern Pamir (mentioned by Ptolemy, and apparent on the Ashharatsuyts map too), again through the Wakhan Corridor and Badakhshan to ability the age-old above burghal of Balh (Balkh). An another Northern Silk Road4 went from Kashgar to high Alay Valley, again beyond the Alay Mountains to access Fergana Valley.
Mount Imeon was acclaimed for its lapis lazuli deposits in western Badakhshan, adumbrated on Shirakatsi’s map. The mines at Sar-e-Sang accept been bearing lapis lazuli for one millennia now, bartering the age-old civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, and Rome, and still acquiescent the world’s finest lapis. The Venetian charlatan Marco Polo visited the mines in 1271 during his acclaimed adventure to China, afterward the Silk Road to cantankerous the mountains by way of Wakhan.5
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