Hamlet Petrosyan (Armenian: Համլետ Պետրոսյան; born 1955)[1] is an Armenian historian, archaeologist, and anthropologist.
Petrosyan was born in 1955 in the village of Khnatsakh in what was then Askeran district of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast.[1] He graduated from the Department of Archaeology of Yerevan State University (YSU) and completed his post-graduate studies at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of Armenian SSR.[1][2]
Petrosyan started his career at Armenia's State Museum of Ethnography as chief of the Paleoanthropology Department. Since 1981, he has been a senior research fellow at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of Armenia's Academy of Sciences. Petrosyan was a visiting professor on archaeology and anthropology at his alma mater, YSU, between 1992 and 2006. In 2007 he was named Chair of Cultural Studies at YSU.[1]
Petrosyan has led excavations in Shushi, Handaberd, and most notably, the ancient site of Tigranakert in Artsakh.[1][3][4] He has described Tigranakert as “the best-preserved city of the Hellenistic and Armenian civilizations.”[5]
Patrosyan's English publications include:[6]