NEWS
NEWS -
Xəbər arxivi
17 March, 2015
National Museum of Azerbaijan History enriches with new archaeological materials

Recently, Archaeology Fund of National Museum of Azerbaijan History was submitted new archaeological materials by Dr. Geography Rena Gashgay.



Archaeological findings have been discovered in 2004 during excavations in the necropolis Plovdagh, in the territory of Ordubad region, Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic.
The total number of ancient finds is 57: bronze pendants, pins, rings, jewelry in the form of buttons, arrowheads and fragments, beads of different shapes, made of agate, paste, glass, clay, bronze and so on. Only one decoration, made of agate, was found in the same region in the necropolis Mardangolu in 1980. Submitted archaeological materials which date back to the end of the II millennium BC are a valuable source for studying lifestyle, walfare and employment of inhabitants of that period.