Excavations were carried out on three barrows in Azerbaijan’s Fuzuli district, the Director General of the Institute of Archeology, Ethnography and Anthropology of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, Professor Abbas Seyidov said, Report informs.
According to Seyidov, these mounds are located 700-800 meters from the Ahmadbayli-Fuzuli-Shusha road.
“This is a wide barrow steppe, and there are 3,000 years old barrows of rulers. They belong to the VIII-VII centuries BC. Studies have revealed that the ruler was buried in one of the mounds along with the chariot. Fragments of wheels from a chariot, weapons, and remains of horses were found. Most of the materials found there are stored in our fund, and part is temporarily transferred to the Museum of History,” he said.