Samvel Karapetyan (author)

Samvel Karapetian (; 30 July 1961 – 27 February 2020) was an Armenian historian, researcher, author, and expert of medieval architecture. His works were on the study of the historical monuments of Armenia, Nagorno Karabakh and other regions of the Southern Caucasus. 
He surveyed and catalogued thousands of artifacts of Armenian history and architecture. Karapetyan was head of the Yerevan branch of the NGO Research on Armenian Architecture (RAA). Karapetyan was also known as an outspoken critic of the treatment of Armenian monuments in Turkey. He presented his findings to United States Congress in 2007 and to the European Court of Human Rights in 2008.
In 2007 he won the Armenian Presidential Humanitarian Sciences Prize for his work in literature.
Karapetyan was an outspoken critic of the Armenian Apostolic Church and a supporter of the separation of church and state in Armenia.