THE  MISSION  OF  THE  ARARA-T  IS  THE  COMPLEX  AND  SYSTEMATIC  STUDY  OF  ARMENIAN  ROCK-ART.

Academy aims: 

• Discovery and recording of new rock-images 

• Rock-Art protection and conservation 

• Computer Technology as an aid to Rock-Art research, Rupestrian Cyberspace 

• Systemization of Rock-Art (classification, numbering, mapping, complete description of each rock-carving and picture group according to 365 parameters of our system, final dating of Rock-Art) 

• Spreading of knowledge about Rock-Art 

• Museum activity 

• Creating Armenian Rock-Art database (Internet resourses, CD etc.) 

• Rock-Art education 

• The Archeoastronomy of Rock-Art, Astral figures in Rock-Art

• Origin and development of Rock-Art 

• Reveal of cultural, historical, linguistic, ethnographic, religious and philosophical bases of Rock-Art