I have never heard about this person, he seems to have almost no qualifications as a historian or academic, in #Azerbaijan'i sources he is referenced highly and called a famous historian, which no one can verify.
Ekozyants tries very hard to convince readers that in history Armenia was always a geographical region, yet again a very childish and amateur approach. It's even more surprising that some people are prone to quoting him as an authoritative source.
If readers are questioning whether ancient Armenians are genetically similar to their modern descendants, here’s a number of scientific articles on the genetic heritage of the #Armenia'n people showing their existence in #Caucasus since the Bronze Age.
A number of linguists maintain that Armenians, together with the Hurrians, Kassites and others, were indigenous Anatolian or Caucasian people who lived in the region of Hayasa in northern #Armenia until the arrival of the Indo-Europeans. 1/5 #History
The Armenians adopted some of the vocabulary of these Indo-European arrivals. This explains why Armenian is a unique branch of the Indo-European language tree and may also explain the origin of the words Hai and Hayastan (“Armenia” in the Armenian language). 2/5 #linguistics
As evidence these scholars point to Hurrian suffixes, the absence of
gender and other linguistic data. Archeologists add that the images of Armenians on a number of sixth-century Persian monuments depict racial characteristics similar to those of other people of the Caucasus. 3/5