by Orsolya Doricsak AAANews Blog 05/02/2014 Hovann Simonian and Peter Hrechdakian, administrators of the Armenian DNA Project, delivered the 18th Annual Vardanants Day Armenian Lecture, titled “DNA and the Origin of People: The Armenians” on Tuesday, April 22 at the Library of Congress, in Washington, DC. By reaching thousands of years into the past, the project aims to find genetic traces of both the ancient peoples whose descendants make up the current Armenian population (