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Ancient Site

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Ghazakh / Ghazakh

Historical Introduction
1956 — 1957 yy․

Between 1956 and 1957, the Caucasian Archaeological Expedition (headed by I. Narimanov) of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Azerbaijan conducted excavations in an ancient site located at the western extremity of Ghazakh City, in the territory of a brick mill, in the vicinity of a hill called Saritapa. The study of the archaeological finds revealed that the site dated back to the beginning of the I millennium B.C.

Narimanov, I. Archaeological Excavations in the Settlement Site of the Hill of Saritapa (1956 to 1957). In: “Izvestya Akademii Nauk Azerbaijanskoy SSR,” 1959, No. 3, pp. 31-43, in Russian.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 305.