Patma-Banasirakan Handes (Armenian: Պատմա-Բանասիրական Հանդես (ՊԲՀ, PBH); Russian: Историко-филологический журнал, Istoriko-Filologicheskii Zhurnal; lit.

[2] The journal also publishes discussions and debates, book reviews and also has special sections devoted to science news and Armenian Diasporan affairs.

[2] It occasionally publishes obituaries and biographies and commemorates the lives of noted scholars involved in Armenian studies.

[4] According to Razmik Panossian "it became a trend-setting journal for historians, linguists, philologists and for scholars in the humanities in general.

This influential journal brought together all branches of Armenian studies, systematically consolidating research on culture, ancient law and philosophy, architecture, language and history.