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<< Our Photo Pages >> Yeni Turcan Mound - Cairn in Azerbaijan

Submitted by AlexHunger on Tuesday, 28 August 2007  Page Views: 4500

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Yeni Turcan Mound Alternative Name: Gala Museum
Country: Azerbaijan
NOTE: This site is 0.298 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Baku  Nearest Village: Gala
Latitude: 40.439610N  Longitude: 50.164030E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
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4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
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3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
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2co-ordinates of the nearest village
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Yeni Turcan Mound
Yeni Turcan Mound submitted by kurgan : Burial Mound at Yeni Turcan with Two Statues. N, 40 deg, 22 min, 54.2 sec; E 50 deg, 9 min, 44.5 sec This most unusual burial mound was excavated as part of a rescue dig due to an expanding limestone quarry. The statues appeared to be male and female with their top or heads broken. The reason for this damage or burial is unknown but it is plausible that the images were ceremonially killed a... (Vote or comment on this photo)
Cairn in Azerbaijan

Burial Mound at Yeni Turcan with Two Statues.

Original location: N, 40 deg, 22 min, 54.2 sec; E 50 deg, 9 min, 44.5 sec

This most unusual burial mound was excavated as part of a rescue dig due to an expanding limestone quarry. The statues appeared to be male and female with their top or heads broken. The reason for this damage or burial is unknown but it is plausible that the images were ceremonially killed at a time when an old, perhaps polytheistic religion was giving way to a new one. The statues were then reverently buried in a manner fitting to a tribal leader. The burial mound has now been relocated to a museum site at Gala on the Apsheron Peninsula.
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Yeni Turcan Mound
Yeni Turcan Mound submitted by kurgan : Two Damaged Statues at Yeni Turcan Burial Mound. N, 40 deg, 22 min, 54.2 sec; E 50 deg, 9 min, 44.5 sec The female statue on left has a bosom, naval and decorative necklace on her broken head. The possible male image is rectangular and plane. The figures are oriented to the South West which corresponds to the midwinter sunset which local archaeologists considered to be the place of the dead... (Vote or comment on this photo)

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 6.5km S 185° Yeni Turcan* Ancient Mine, Quarry or other Industry
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