Levan Chilashvili (August 17, 1930 – April 26, 2004) was a famous Georgian

Georgia (country)

Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

 archaeologist and historian, an academician

Academician

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 of the Georgian Academy of Sciences

Georgian Academy of Sciences

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 (GAS), Meritorious Scholar of Georgia, Doctor of Historical Sciences, and Professor.

In 1954, he graduated from the Faculty of History of Tbilisi State University

Tbilisi State University

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 (TSU), where he was also a professor from 1967 until his death in 2004. In 1958, Chilashvili received his PhD in History, and in 1967, he received a degree as Doctor of Historical Sciences.

In 1991, he was elected Academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (GAS).

Chilashvili was also Director of the State Museum of Georgia of the GAS (1980–2004).

In 1982, he was awarded the Simon Janashia

Simon Janashia

Simon Janashia was an outstanding Georgian historian and public benefactor, one of the founders and Academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences , Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor....

 Prize of the GAS.

Levan Chilashvili's main fields of scientific inquiry were archaeology and the history of ancient Georgia. From 1995 to 2003, Chilashvili's archaeological expedition in Nekresi

Nekresi

Nekresi , historic town in Kakheti, Georgia, in modern day Kvareli Municipality, near the village Shilda. The town was established by king Pharnajom . In 4th century AD, king Thrdat built a church in this place. This church became a refuge to one of the Assyrian fathers, Abibus, in the late 6th...

 (the Kakheti

Kakheti

Kakheti is a historical province in Eastern Georgia inhabited by Kakhetians who speak a local dialect of Georgian. It is bordered by the small mountainous province of Tusheti and the Greater Caucasus mountain range to the north, Russian Federation to the Northeast, Azerbaijan to the Southeast, and...

region of Eastern Georgia) discovered pre-Christian Georgian inscriptions from the 1st to the 3rd centuries.

Some of main scientific works of Levan Chilashvili

• "Town of Rustavi" (a monograph), Tbilisi, 1957 (in Georgian)
• "Ancient town Urbnisi" (a monograph), Tbilisi, 1964 (in Georgian)
• "Towns of Kakheti" (a monograph), Tbilisi, 1980 (in Georgian)
• "Areshi" (a monograph), Tbilisi, 1991 (in Georgian)
• "The Pre-Christian Georgian inscription from Nekresi".- E. Khintibidze (Ed.) "Kartvelology", No 7, Tbilisi, 2000