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A prolific historian, Eduard Danielian had an important contribution to the study of Armenian ancient and medieval history.

Danielian was born on February 18, 1944, in Yerevan. He graduated from the Faculty of Geography of Yerevan State University (1961-1966) and the English section of the Institute (now University) of Foreign Languages Valery Briusov (1966-1972). After finishing the course at the Ph.D. program of the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences, in 1972 he defended his dissertation on “The Reflection of Ancient Cosmological Views in Anania Shirakatsi’s Cosmology and Atlas.” He earned a second doctorate in 1988 with the subject “Armeno-Byzantine Political Relations in the Twilight of Sassanid Persia and the Early Period of the Arab Caliphate.”