Grakliani
The hill of Grakliani is an archaeological site in Georgia .
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The place is about 30 kilometers west of the capital Tbilisi on the Tbilisi-Senaki-Leselidze highway at an altitude of about 680 m .
The site was cut when the motorway was being built in 2007 and the layers of the find came to light. The excavations have been carried out by the Tbilisi State University since then . The traces of settlement date mainly in the period from 700 to 350 BC. And are interpreted as a settlement in the style of Persian Zoroastrianism . The oldest find is a hand ax estimated to be around 300,000 years old . Furthermore, a stone inscription was discovered in 2015, which is possibly the oldest in an early Georgian script .
The excavations were continued in 2017 with the participation of the Natural History Society of Nuremberg . Further horizons, including Achaemenid buildings, were excavated under the fall layer of an earthquake . The site was proposed for inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage List .
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Coordinates: 41 ° 59 ′ 47.8 " N , 44 ° 24 ′ 22.2" E