Mt︠s︡kheta
11 USD
Add to
Add to
Mtskheta, an ancient city of Georgia, was founded in the second half of the 1st c. BC and till the end of the Vth c. AD was the capital of Iberia (Cartliiskoe Tsarstvo). Today its territory is a national museum. The book tells about fortified residences, blocks of buildings, burial grounds, crypts dated of the Eneolit up to the Middle Ages. Monastery complex Samtavro (11th c.), cathedral Svetitskhoveli are also described.