Gregory Areshian

Areshian died on 2 August 2020, from complications related to COVID-19 in Astghik Medical Center. He had been diagnosed with COVID-19 three weeks earlier.

In 2017 a Festschrift was published in honor of Areshian under the title Bridging Times and Spaces: Papers in Ancient Near Eastern, Mediterranean and Armenian Studies. The editors of the volume were Pavel Avetisyan, a former student of Areshian and Yervand Grekyan.

Areshian received his bachelor's and master's degree from Yerevan State University where he studied from 1966 to 1973. From 1973 until 1975 Areshian pursued his PhD studies at the Saint Petersburg State University under the supervision of Boris Piotrovsky. His thesis was "Iron in Ancient Western Asia".

Gregory Areshian (13 May 1949 – 2 August 2020) was an Armenian-American archeologist and historian who was a professor at American University of Armenia. He was the co-director of the international team of archeologists who, led by Boris Gasparyan, found the 5,500 years old shoe in and the oldest winery in Areni of which Areshian said:

Gregory Areshian was born on 13 May in 1949 in Yerevan. He has had a keen interest in history and archaeology when he was only five years old. He read a number of books on the history of warfare including Julius Caesar's Commentarii de Bello Gallico in French.