This is Sakartvelo·ეს საქართველოა
One of the oldest human stories on Earth, and a fifth of its territory occupied today. Walk through it, piece by piece.
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The Journey →Three scripts, one alphabet: the living Georgian writing systemDraft
Georgian is written in its own alphabet, and Georgians still use all three historical forms of it. UNESCO calls it a living cultural heritage of humanity.
8,000 years of wine: where it all beganDraft
Clay jars found in southern Georgia hold the oldest known traces of grape wine in the world. And Georgians still make wine in clay vessels buried in the ground.
Zezva and Mzia: the oldest humans found outside AfricaDraft
In a medieval hilltop town in southern Georgia, archaeologists found 1.8-million-year-old human skulls that rewrote the story of how our ancestors left Africa.
4,000,000 years, roughly
Explore the timeline →From the first humans outside Africa to this morning's news -- a timeline of the land now called Georgia.
- c. 1.8 million years ago
The Dmanisi people
The oldest human fossils found outside Africa are unearthed at Dmanisi -- the first known step of our ancestors' journey out of Africa.
- c. 6000 BC
The first wine
Clay jars at Gadachrili Gora hold the oldest known traces of grape wine in the world -- a tradition that never stopped.
- 5th century AD
The Georgian alphabet appears in writing
The earliest surviving Georgian inscriptions date from this century -- the start of over 1,500 unbroken years of writing Georgian in its own script.
Can you put Georgia back together?
Drag all 12 regions into place in a free browser puzzle -- and find out which parts of the map are occupied, and why.
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