Archaeological Sites in Georgia
City/town/settlement in Georgia (14)
Armazi
Armazi is a locale in Georgia, 4 km southwest of Mtskheta and 22 km northwest of Tbilisi. A part of historical Greater Mtskheta, it is a place where the ancient city of the same…
Didnauri
Didnauri is a Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age settlement on the Shiraki Plain in Dedoplistsqaro municipality, southeastern Georgia. It is considered the largest ancient settlement…
Dmanisi
Dmanisi is a town and archaeological site in the Kvemo Kartli region of Georgia approximately 93 km southwest of the nation's capital Tbilisi in the river valley of Mashavera. A…
Dzalisi
Dzalisi is a historic village in Georgia, located in the Mukhrani valley, 50 km northwest of Tbilisi, and 20 km northwest of Mtskheta. It is the Zalissa of Ptolemy (AD 90–168) who…
Kutaisi
Historically one of the major cities of Georgia, Kutaisi served as the political center of Colchis in the Middle Ages as the capital of the Kingdom of Abkhazia and Kingdom of…
Nekresi
Nekresi is a historic and archaeological site in eastern Georgian region of Kakheti, between the town of Qvareli and the village of Shilda, at the foothills of the Greater…
Nokalakevi
Located by the Tekhuri River, on the northern edge of the Colchian plain in Samegrelo, western Georgia, lie the ruins of Nokalakevi. Occupying approximately 20ha, the site was…
Pichvnari
Pichvnari is an ancient Colchian settlement on the Black Sea coast of Georgia, near the confluence of the Choloki and Ochkhamuri rivers, about 10 km north of Kobuleti. Occupied…
Samshvilde
Samshvilde is a ruined fortified city and archaeological site in Georgia, in the country's south, near the homonymous modern-day village in the Tetritsqaro Municipality. Some of…
Tsitsamuri
Tsitsamuri is a small village near Mtskheta, Georgia, where archaeologist Andria Apakidze unearthed a ruined acropolis of ancient Iberia in 1953. The site is identified as the…
Urbnisi
Urbnisi is a village in Georgia's Shida Kartli region, in the district of Kareli.
Vani
Systematic archaeological studies carried out in the Vani environs since 1947 revealed the remnants of a rich city of the ancient power of Colchis. The name of this ancient…
Vani Archaeological Site
The Vani archaeological site is a multi-layer archaeological site in western Georgia, located on a hill at the town of Vani in the Imereti region. It is the best studied site in…
Ziari
Ziari is a Paleolithic archaeological site in Gurjaani Municipality, Kakheti region, Georgia. Archaeological research conducted since the 1960s has unearthed numerous stone…
Cave Structures in Georgia (5)
Kudaro
Kudaro is a complex of Paleolithic cave sites in the highlands of Georgia, located at approximately 1,600 meters above sea level. The caves contain Lower Paleolithic Acheulean…
Satsurblia Cave
Satsurblia Cave Natural Monument is a paleoanthropological site located 1.2 km from Kumistavi village, Tsqaltubo Municipality, in the Imereti region of Georgia. The karst cave was…
Tsona Cave
Tsona Cave is an archaeological site at the head of the river Qvirila in proximity of village Tson in the Java Municipality in Shida Kartli in Georgia. The site is close to the…
Tsutskhvati Cave Natural Monument
Tsutskhvati Cave Natural Monument is a karst cave near village Tsutskhvati in Tkibuli Municipality in Imereti region of Georgia. Archaeological studies were conducted since the…
Uplistsikhe
Uplistsikhe is an ancient rock-hewn town in eastern Georgia, some 10 kilometers east of the town of Gori, Shida Kartli. Uplistsikhe is identified by archaeologists as one of the…
Temple complex in Georgia (4)
Atashgah Of Tbilisi
Built 3rd-7th c. AD, Atashgah is an ancient Zoroastrian Fire Temple in Tbilisi, Georgia, constructed during the Sasanian era when eastern Georgia was under Persian political and…
Dedoplis Mindori
Dedoplis Mindori is an archaeological site in Georgia's east-central region of Shida Kartli, at the confluence of eastern and western Prone, tributaries of the Kura. A multi-layer…
Grakliani Hill
Grakliani Hill is an archaeological excavation site in eastern Georgia near Kaspi, showing evidence of human presence possibly going back 300,000 years. The site was discovered in…
Nekresi Fire Temple
The Nekresi fire temple is an archaeological complex in the eastern Georgian region of Kakheti, part of the wider Nekresi site. The excavated building, preserved only…
Fortress/citadel in Georgia (2)
Anacopia Fortress
Anakopia Fortress is an ancient military citadel in New Athos in the disputed Abkhazia, Georgia located some 22 km by road along the coast from Sukhumi. The site, approximately…
Gonio Fortress
Gonio is a Roman fortification in Adjara, Georgia, on the Black Sea, 15 km south of Batumi, at the mouth of the Chorokhi river. The oldest reference to the fortress is by Pliny…
Bath in Georgia (1)
Church/cathedral in Georgia (1)
Geological interest in Georgia (1)
Mine/quarry in Georgia (1)
Petroglyphs in Georgia (1)
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