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A pottery jar with a human skeleton of Hellenistic period found in
capital of Nagorny Karabakh Republic
arminfo
Wednesday, May 4, 17:23
A resident of Stepanakert Yuri Hayrapetyan has found a big pottery jar
with human remains during construction work in his yard. ArmInfo's
correspondent to Stepanakert reports that specialists say the find
belongs to the 2nd-1st centuries BC.
Vardges Safaryan, a local archaeologist, says the given territory is
known with its jar burials. Yet in the 30s of the 20th century famous
archaeologist Gummel organized excavation in the given area of
Stepanakert and part of the items found then are now exhibited in the
NKR Local History Museum.
All the 32 teeth of the man, probably a fighter, buried in the pottery
jar were preserved. Besides the skeleton, two arrowheads, glass beads,
bronze buttons were found in the jar. Vardges Safaryan says that the
finds in the jar are very like to the finds of Hellenistic period
found during excavations of the ancient Armenian
town - Artsakhi Tigranakert in the territory of the present Askeran
region of NKR.
"All this once again shows that Armenians lived in the given
territories since Hellenistic period," the archaeologist says.
From: A. Papazian
capital of Nagorny Karabakh Republic
arminfo
Wednesday, May 4, 17:23
A resident of Stepanakert Yuri Hayrapetyan has found a big pottery jar
with human remains during construction work in his yard. ArmInfo's
correspondent to Stepanakert reports that specialists say the find
belongs to the 2nd-1st centuries BC.
Vardges Safaryan, a local archaeologist, says the given territory is
known with its jar burials. Yet in the 30s of the 20th century famous
archaeologist Gummel organized excavation in the given area of
Stepanakert and part of the items found then are now exhibited in the
NKR Local History Museum.
All the 32 teeth of the man, probably a fighter, buried in the pottery
jar were preserved. Besides the skeleton, two arrowheads, glass beads,
bronze buttons were found in the jar. Vardges Safaryan says that the
finds in the jar are very like to the finds of Hellenistic period
found during excavations of the ancient Armenian
town - Artsakhi Tigranakert in the territory of the present Askeran
region of NKR.
"All this once again shows that Armenians lived in the given
territories since Hellenistic period," the archaeologist says.
From: A. Papazian