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Traces of Caucasian Albania

Just five kilometres from Sheki, travel to the picturesque village of Kish to explore Albanian temple, one of our amazing monuments of Caucasian Albania – an ancient state that existed here from about 3BC to 8AD. The history of this beautiful church is thought to date to 1AD, yet archaeologists have founded evidence that this cultural  site existed here as early as 3,000BC! The church now functions primarily as a museum to Caucasian Albania and features a host of Bronze Age ceramics discovered during excavations carried out in the early 2000s by a joint Azerbaijani-Norwegian team, as well as glass-covered vaults displaying ancient graves with two-metre long skeletons.