Cylinder with a ritual scene ,early 2nd millennium B

Geoy Tepe is an archaeological site in northwestern

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, about 7 kilometers south of

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(Reżāʾīya). It was found by an aerial survey of ancient sites in

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done by Erich Schmidt in the 1930s. The site's mound is 80 feet in height and is situated by a natural spring. T. Burton Brown of Great Britain excavated the site in August 1948. It was found to have been continuously occupied from the 4th millennium

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until 1200 BCE.BURTON-BROWN, T. \95l. Excavations in Azerbaijan, 1948. John Murray, London Remains of the earliest stage of the Kura-Araxes culture have been found here.

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