By Trend
A group of local journalists visited Azykh village of Khojavend
district and the Azykh cave liberated from the Armenian occupation
through the organizational support of the Azerbaijani Ministry of
Ecology and Natural Resources, Trend reports on April 28.
During a conversation with the journalists, head of the
Biodiversity Protection Service of the Azerbaijani Ministry of
Ecology and Natural Resources Firuddin Aliyev stressed that the
Azykh cave is considered the first place of residence of an ancient
man in Azerbaijan.
"This is confirmed by the lower jaw of a woman found in 1968 in
the cave, who supposedly lived between 350,000-400,000 BC,” Aliyev
said. “During archaeological excavations in the cave, historical
samples of the Paleolithic, Eneolithic and Bronze Ages were also
discovered. The research was launched by Mammadali Huseynov in
1960.”
“Unfortunately, after 1993, the Armenians carried out illegal
archaeological excavations and the archaeological samples found
here were taken abroad,” Aliyev added. “There is no information
about these samples, they are lost. Tools from the early Bronze Age
were found here. Moreover, the Azykh cave is one of the six
paleontological monuments of Azerbaijan."
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