New cultural examples found in Ancient Gabala city
Baku, September 4 (AZERTAC). A large number of material and cultural examples have been found as a result of excavations being carried out in Gala part of the ancient city of Gabala, Azerbaijan.
The excavations are supported by the Azerbaijan-Korean Cultural Exchange Association.
Archaeological excavations testify to wide development of handicrafts of stone, metal, bone, wood, pottery, production of glass, jeweler`s art, dye profession, tanning, knitting in the ancient town.
The foundings date back to approximately the 8th and 10 centuries.
Archaeological excavations testify to existence of handicrafts of stone, metal, bone, wood, pottery, production of glass, jeweler’s art, dye profession, tanning, and knitting in the ancient town.
Approximately 2,500 years old ancient Gabala, which had been capital city of Caucasian Albania, for nine centuries was one of political-economic and trading centers of the world and could be compared with such ancient cities as Babil, Troy and Pompey. Reminders of big buildings, castle walls and monuments of material culture prove Gabala as being a grandiose ancient city. Ancient Gabala emerged as a city at the end of the 4th- beginning of the 3rd century BC and lived till the middle of the 18th century. Ruins of the ancient city are in 15-20 km distance from the regional center, between Gara River and Covurlu River, in Chukhur Gabala village. Ancient Gabala occupied an area of 25 hectares.
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