Kish reveals tracesof Caucasian Albania
Just five kilometres from Shaki is the picturesque village of Kish, where you can explore Kish Temple, one of Azerbaijan’s greatest monuments of Caucasian Albania. This ancient state existed in the area boasting a myriad of architectural wonders across large expanses of Azerbaijan.
The core of this beautiful building is thought to date to the 1st century AD, yet archaeologists have discovered evidence that a cultic site existed here as early as 3000 BC! The temple now functions primarily as a museum of Caucasian Albania, featuring 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-tall skeletons.
