Tomb :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Tomb BC 2 m․

Azerbaijan / Northern Artsakh / Dashkesan / Khachbulagh

Historical Introduction

The archaeological monuments preserved both in the territory and neighbourhood of Khachbulagh attest that it has been inhabited since time immemorial. Working in a site called Hamamgyuzi in 1959, the archaeological expedition of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Azerbaijan, headed by I. Narimanov and G. Ismayilov, unearthed three burial mounds covered with soil and stones.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 196.

One of them was absolutely empty, while the other two contained a silver button, 4 bronze volutes, 16 grey-blackish clay vessels, some cornelian beads and a metal spearhead, all these findings dating back to the middle of the second millennium B.C.

Narimanov, I., Ismayilov, G. Archaeological Excavations in Khachbulagh in 1959 (in Azerbaijanian). In: “Izvestya Akademii Nauk Azerbaijanskoy SSR.” A serial of social sciences, 1961, No. 3, pp. 19-30.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 196.

It is interesting to note that similar articles and clay containers were also discovered in a number of other Bronze Age monuments found in the territory of Armenia.

Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 196.

The ceramic objects remarkable for their white ornaments have their parallels in the archaeological finds of Ljashen (in Gegharkunik Marz of the Republic of Armenia) dating from the 16th to 14th centuries B.C.

Mnatsakanian, A. About the Two-Coloured Ceramics of Ljashen. In: “Izvestya,” 1957, No. 5, p. 109, in Russian.
Karapetian, Samvel. Northern Artsakh, Yerevan, 2007, p. 196.