On September 20, at the conference hall of Caucasus University, Professor Mzia Mikeladze held a lecture-seminar: "News on Expeditions of Tao-Klarjeti Cultural Monuments 2016".

The project's scientific director, Professor Temur Khutsishvili, presented newly discovered monuments in historic Tao in 2016, as well as photo and video material.

Project: "Catalog of the Georgian Material Culture Monuments of the Kola-Artan and Tao-Klarjeti Historical Sites of Turkey" funded by Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation in 2014 and is still being successfully implemented.

Within the framework of the project, scientific expeditions have been carried out in historical Tao-Klarjeti for the third year, during this period dozens of unknown monuments were revealed:

2014 - Kola-Artan - 156 cultural monuments

314 villages were checked

2015 - Klarjeti - 108 cultural monuments

283 villages were checked

2016 - Tao - 150 cultural monuments

The expeditions will last until November, and by the end of 2016, the end of the project will include the publication of the Tao-Klarjeti Cultural Monuments.

Implementing organization: Caucasus University, Center for Research of Georgian Culture and Tourism Resources.