The Many Ways of Being Human

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Armenians, Assyrians, Georgians

Letters cut from reddish tuff stand in rows on a slope below Aragats, each as tall as a person, an alphabet Mesrop Mashtots is said to have designed 1,600 years before the monument went up. Moving among Armenians, Georgians and Assyrians, the chapter finds that mountains only lower the price of survival, while institutions do the keeping.