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Researcher reveals interesting facts about Azerbaijanâ€™s history at Baku international conference

15 November 2013 09:51 (UTC +04:00)

APA reports that more than 100 scientific experts, including 32 foreign experts from 11 countries attended the conference.

Addressing the conference, researcher Nourida Ateshi revealed many unknown aspects of her historical and archaeological researches carried out in German, English, Russian, Turkish, Azerbaijani sources in Germany, Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Chechnya, Ingushetia, Ossetia and Dagestan over the last seven years.

She said that before the Great Patriotic War, the collection of the Greater Caucasus was made at Berlin Museum. Only from Azerbaijan, there was the collection of three great exhibits consisting of samples dating back to Khojaly-Gedebey culture. But those exhibits were legally and illegally sold by V. Belkin, Karthaus and Count von Schweinitz to the various museums of Germany: “Unfortunately, these collections were not studied before the war. 40 per cent of the collections disappeared during the war. At present, a number of exhibits are being preserved at Moscow and St. Petersburg museums and have not been studied up to now. 2556 material samples of Azerbaijan are currently being preserved at the Berlin Museum of Pre-History and Early History. Among them there are 12 bronze belts, some of which are unknown to science today. In 1895, V. Nagelm, the Director of the Museum of Pre-History and Early History, and E. Strommenger published a catalogue named Galakend. The catalogue only contains the excavations carried out by V. Belkin in Gedebey and the surrounding area and the letters sent by him to the famous German anthropologist R. Virchow. The whole Gedebey and the surrounding area were called the Upper Armenia In the book. Tombs, settlements in Gedebey dating back to the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age and Christian churches dating back to the other periods have fully been attributed to the history of ancient Armenians and the authors have not clarified this issue. On the basis of this book and because of the many historical, geographical , archaeological and even political mistakes made by Belkin, Rosler , Rossendorf , Karthaus, for decades, Khojaly-Gedebey culture in German, Russian, Caucasus and Azerbaijani books have repeatedly been distorted and resulted in numerous undesirable scientific results.”

At the end of her scientific report, Nourida Ateshi asked the international community to restudy Khojaly-Gedebey culture together with the German, Russian and Azerbaijani scientists and to put up the written books for discussion.

Her proposal was welcomed by the foreign scientists.