Mound graves in Ashaghi Zaghali village

In the village of Ashagi Zaghali (Argush Argunkand) in Basarkechar district, located in Yeni Bayazid district of Iravan governorate

Basarkechar district, Vardenis since 11.06.1969, Ashagi Zaghali village, Tsovak (Gollu) since 12.08.1946

Archaeological monument

The objects belonging to the 1st millennium BC, found in the mounds in the village of Ashaghi Zaghali, are kept in the Museum of Georgia and were given to this museum by an Armenian named E.A. Lalayan.

Argun village, the ancient name of Ashagi Zaghali, was not mentioned in the lists compiled by I. Chopin. The toponyms of Lower and Yukhari Zaghali are found for the first time in the documents of 1873. In the official statistics of the same year, the name of Yukhari Zaghali appears in the list of purely Turkish villages, and the name of Ashagi Zaghali is included in the list of mixed villages: 114 Azerbaijani and 42 Armenian families. However, in the place of these villages, there was Argun village, where Azerbaijanis settled 3000 thousand years ago. Academician B. Piotrovsky, while talking about the earth mounds on the terrace of the Zaghali castle, also notes that there was a large burial mound a little distance from the castle, and it was completely looted. On pages 165-206 of the book "Ethnographic Review" published in Armenian in 1907, the same Lalayan himself gives the details of the excavation work he conducted in Zaghali Castle in 1906. Academician B. Piotrovsky, having studied the objects found in the territory of Lalaya's Zagali and Argun villages, states that the material evidence obtained from the Zaghali mounds, both in terms of antiquity and belonging to the same culture, are similar to those obtained by E. Resler, V. Belkin and A. Ivanovsky in the territory of present-day Azerbaijan and it is identical with archaeological excavations. These material evidences show the antiquity of the Azerbaijani root here.
 

It is a fact confirmed by all the archaeologists of the world that the archaeological samples in the mounds are 3000 years old. Therefore, the history of the settlement of Argun village by the Oghuz Turks should be sought in those times.