In 1827 the French “Asiatic Society” send Prof. Fr. Ed. Schulz on a mis­sion trip to Van for the study of cuneiform inscriptions and Ancient Eastern sites in Vantosp region, described by Movses Khorenatsi. There he copied 42 cunei­form inscriptions, described antiquities of Van and paraphrased the stories referring to them. After the scholar’s early death, his work was continued by other researchers, including C. F. Lehmann-Haupt, who worked with remarka­ble devotion. The Armenian intellectuals eagerly anticipated publication of Leh­mann-Haupt’s and his collegue’s, Vоldemar Belk’s works. Those were trans­lated and published in the Armenian journals. In particular, the first fundamental work of C.F. Lehmann-Haupt called “Materialen zur älteren Geschichte Ar­meniens und Mesoptamiens, Mit einem Beitrage Arabische Inschriften aus Ar­me­nien und Diyarbekr von Max van Berchem”, Berlin “Weidmannsche Buchan­dlung”, 1907 was published in the issues of journal “Bazmavep” (1908-1909).

The abovementioned initiative contributed to formation and further de­vel­op­ment of the Urartology in Armenia.