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An explainer on the khachkar — the Armenian carved cross-stone traditioninscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritageof Humanity in 2010 — covering its iconography, the modular geometry behind theinterlace, and why no two are alike. Sources include the UNESCO inscriptionrecord, Petrosyan (2008), and a 2024 study in the Nexus Network Journal on theunderlying geometric construction. Useful for art history, architecture, andgeometry or design coursework.

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