The Minister of Culture and Tourism of Turkey Mehmet Nuri Ersa said that archaeological excavations in Ani shed light on new certificates of Turkic-Islamic history and allow you to identify one of the first traces of the Seljuks in Anatolia.
“during the ongoing excavations in Ani, a new Seljuk kumbet was discovered. The find was made in the territory of the Seljuki The cemeteries, which is considered the first of the Turkic-Islamic necropolis in Anatolia. Kumbeta, sarcophagi and the burial of aky-type. This season, archaeologists have discovered a new kyumbet with a square base of brick.
Experts emphasize that the form of the structure continues the tradition of the burial architecture of the Great Seljuk Empire in Vodzhtolyan lands, which gives the find special significance.
archaeological work in ani continues.