The opening ceremony of the exhibition entitled "Mother Deity: From Anahit to Mariam" will be held on Saturday at 3pm at the Museum of History of Armenia, within the framework of which the bust and hand of the famous bronze statue of the Goddess Anahit, transferred from the prestigious British Museum, will be displayed for the first time in Armenia.

Also, more than six dozen exhibits from the rich collection of the Museum of History of Armenia will be presented within the framework of this exhibition, summing up the idea of the Mother Deity—from the Neolithic period to the present day, the Culture Development Fund informs.

The exhibition will be held as a result of long-term cooperation between the History Museum of Armenia and the British Museum.

The exhibition is held with the support of the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports of Armenia.

The statue of Anahit, the Armenian goddess of fertility and motherhood, on Monday was brought from the UK to Armenia for about six months.

The History Museum of Armenia prepared a document package with the British Museum, where the bronze head and left hand of the Goddess Anahit were kept, and both are in Armenia now.

The bronze statue of the Goddess Anahit has never been exhibited in Armenia. According to the website of the British Museum, bust of Anahit was found in the 1870s in the Satala settlement of Erzurum, Turkey. Several antiquities dealers passed it from hand to hand, and, ultimately, this bust of Anahit was acquired by the British Museum.

The remaining head and left hand from the bust will be displayed at the History Museum of Armenia for about six months.