Early Photography > Armenia, 2004

With its abundance of undisturbed remnants and ruins, Armenia is an archeological treasure. This small tombstone fragment was one of many that littered the surrounding grounds of Sevanavank, an active monastery dating from 874 A.D. The monastery is situated on a peninsula which was once an island in Lake Sevan until Stalin drained the lake for its fresh water supply in the mid-1930s, thus dropping water levels by more than thirty meters.