Ancient town has been found during excavations in Azerbaijan

Employees of Azerbaijan Archeology and Ethnography Institute in cooperation with German archeologists were conducting excavations in Shamkir region and found ancient town dated BC. The exact location is in Garajemirli that was spotted before as an ancient settlement. The oldest administrative building in Caucasus of 2500 years old has been found here.

Old construction had 8 rooms, the walls were made of raw bricks. The building had columns and gravel in ground work. Apart from buidling archeologists found other objects confirming that there had been a highly developed city culture in Azerbaijan in IX-X centuries. 

Scientists also made excavations at cemetry in Ashagy Irmashly vallage and found stone books (VII-VIII), 2 statues of goat and 8 statues of horse. 


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