[SunkenCiv]

Really, I’d never seen or heard a peep about that.

https://www.reddit.com/r/armenia/comments/1baabhp/armenians_are_european_not_only_culturally_but/

[Mr. Blond]

Probably from people who don’t split hairs about Levantine vs Semitic.

[imardmd1]

I believe that S(h)emites and Ar(a)menians are of the same line of descent down from Noah and his wife.

See Genesis 10:22 and 1 Chronicles 1:17 and their contexts that affirm my conclusions. Of course, Jews and Arabs are also both Shemites.

From the Biblical information, one may also find that the "Magi" that came to worship Jesus in Bethlehem when he was about two years old, were from Padan-Aram, from a province of the Imperium Romanum Anatolia region, now called Turkey. Abram's brother Laban lived in Harran, which since the Moslems took over, was abandoned. That is an area of Turkey adjoining what used to be Armenia.

Aram's name became pretty popular among the Hebrews/Jews, it seems. Appears in many generations listed in the Bible.

(With all respect and appreciation due to your many achievements in archaeological matters, SC.)