The archaeologists have been studying ancient burials for many years in order to get to know more about the ancient population of this region that lived thousands of years ago.
Today, an interesting study of megalithic art dated to four thousand years ago and found in ancient burial chambers of Georgia has revealed important information about beliefs and rituals, the family life of ancient Bronze Age communities.
The stone panels discovered inside kurgans depict geometrical ornaments, animals, houses and enigmatic tally marks.
According to the experts, this art can serve as a kind of communication, ritual performance, or even some form of accounting practised by families building the tombs.4,000-year-old megalithic art reveals an ancient cultureThe topic of this research, entitled 'Message from the Dead: Megalithic Art from the Middle Bronze Age Kurgans in the Southern Caucasus', pertains to carved stone slabs found in Zurtaketi kurgans, a set of burial mounds in the mountainous area of southern Georgia.
The monuments belong to the Trialeti culture, an ancient civilisation dating back to the period around 2000-1700 BCE.This archaeological research work was undertaken by a Georgian scholar named Levan Losaberidze, who reviewed archaeological findings of Otar Japaridze, a renowned Georgian archaeologist, from his excavation in 1959–1964.
