Archaeologists recently used a drone to map a sprawling 3,500-year-old fortress in the Caucasus Mountains of southern Georgia. The detailed aerial map offers some tantalizing clues about the ...

Salome Zourabichvili says her country is 'at a very crucial turning point today, in a region that is very important for the ...

Drone surveys revealed the fortress is over 40 times larger than previously thought, spanning more than 50 hectares.

View of the location and excavations of the ancient mega-fortress discovered in Georgia ... in length. Map of the Dmanisi plateau and surrounding areas. Credit: R. Higham & N. Erb-Satullo The ...

The Caucasus is a geographical region encompassing parts of Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan ... subtle topographic features and create accurate maps of all the fortification walls, graves, field ...

In order to obtain a highly accurate map of human-made features ... Erb-Satullo et al, Mega-fortresses in the South Caucasus: new data from southern Georgia, Antiquity (2025).

Dmanisis Gora is one of many fortress settlements that appeared in the South Caucasus between the second and first millennia BCE. Following initial excavations at the site in Georgia in 2018 ...

By Mack DeGeurin Posted on Jan 8, 2025 Drone photographs taken of a 3,000-year-old “mega fortress” nestled deep in the Caucasus Mountains ... located in present-day Georgia, show a large ...

DMANISI, Georgia (WKRC) - Archaeologists recently discovered ... us to identify subtle topographic features and create accurate maps of all the fortification walls, graves, field systems, and ...

CaucasTours, one of Georgia's leading adventure tourism operators promoting sustainable green practices, is launching ...