5000-year-old cuneiform stone found in Azerbaijan’s Lerik region

A 5000-year old cuneiform stone was found in Lerik region of Azerbaijan, local history teacher Aliheydar Aliyev said. He saves this stone at the ethnography museum. Cuneiforms on the stone proved that Azerbaijanis could read and write 5000 years ago.

Professor of the Lankaran State University, historian-ethnographer Hashim Kelbiyev told APA that this material-cultural sample found in Lerik showed that Azerbaijanis had political, public, cultural and trade relations with Mesopotamia, homeland of cuneiforms, 5000 years ago.

Kelbiyev also urged the experts of the Azerbaijan Institute of Archeology and Ethnography to research the sample found by the teacher from Lerik.


/APA/