Hovick Nersessian is also in New York Academy of Sciences. Here are some more scholars: 

 Jacquetta Hawkes 

 Jacquetta Hawkes, "The First Great Civilizations," London, 1967 

 "Yet the Hurrians did not disappear from history. Away to the North in their Armenian homeland, they entrenched themselves and build up the kingdom of Urartu." 

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquetta_Hawkes 

 [edit] M. Chahin 

 M. Chahin, "The Kingdom of Armenia," London, 2001 

 "The new kingdom of Urartu, which proved to be the stronghold of the Hurrian race." 

 Hurrians meaning the people of Mitanni which were both from Armenian Highland