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 (

The Near East Section of the African and Middle Eastern Division of the Library of Congress cordially invites you to The 18th Annual Vardanants Day Armenian Lecture, featuring Peter Hrechdakian and Hovann Simonian, Co-Administrators of the Armenian DNA Project, to discuss “DNA and the Origin of Peoples: The Armenians,” on Tuesday, April 22, 2014 from 12:00-2:30. The event will be held at the Northeast Pavilion (Enter through the African and Middle Eastern Division Reading Roo