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Amazons exhibitions to be held

08 October 2013 08:07 (UTC +04:00)

Baku – APA. The historical, ethnographic and archaeological research, which has been conducted in 7 countries (Germany, Brazil, Greece, Turkey, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan) and in 5 languages (German, English, Russian, Turkish, Azerbaijani) for 19 years, has produced results.

APA reports that about 10 scientific expeditions were organized to Moscow, St. Petersburg, and several regions of the Caucasus – Georgia, Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan, Ossetia with the support of Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Germany-based Nizami Ganjavi Azerbaijan Cultural Institute, a number of bodies of Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS) and Germany, researches were conducted in museums, archives and funds and analyzing 170-year-old archeological excavations, 500 exhibits, which have never been demonstrated anywhere, were selected for exhibition.

First, Amazon Exhibition is expected to be organized in Baku in 2014.

Nourida Ateshi, Director of Germany-based Nizami Ganjavi Institute of Azerbaijani Culture and the first researcher of Amazons in the South Caucasus told APA that the results of scientific research proof that one of the first settlements of Amazons, ancient women warriors, lay in the current territory of Azerbaijan – Nakhchivan, Astara and Karabakh regions.

According to her, only in Azerbaijan, the graves of 20 warrior women buried with weapons (bow and arrow, swords, daggers, knife, quiver, battleaxe) and jewelries (axe-shape jewelries, bracelets, mirrors and etc.) have been analyzed: The exhibition will demonstrate that amazons are not mythology, but historical truth that primarily settled in the lands of today’s Azerbaijan in late bronze, early iron ages and spread to the Black Sea coasts, them to Greece and all over the world through Iberia and Kakheti along the the Kura, Araz and Alazan rivers through three major research facilities: “They are Gobustan rock engravings depicting woman warrior on horseback, pictures of arrow and bow, graves of female warriors buried with weapons and archeological samples found in the graves discovered in Nakhchivan, Gedebey, Karabakh, Mingachevir and other regions and stone statue of woman warrior, sources of the ancient authors, ancient historical maps discovered in Astara and archaeological excavations of the last decade…”

Nourida Ateshi said she is going to defend a dissertation on "The role of women in war history of Azerbaijan” in the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. She conducted researches in German museums, archives and found out that Azerbaijan’s historical territory of Karabakh was presented as the history of Armenia during the archeological excavations in Azerbaijan during the Soviet period, facts on Khojaly-Gedebey culture, hundreds of historical, archaeological, geographical, ethnographic facts were falsified and related to the history of Armenia and the same falsification was found in the German and European scientific presses and textbooks.

Azerbaijan’s science and history were unaware of it, as these facts were removed from the Azerbaijani translations of these scientific works. The researcher said that she had raised issue before the relevant authorities of Azerbaijan and Germany in this regard.