Uplistsikhe Cave City, Uplistsikhe, Georgia

Ian Colvin

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Ian Colvin is a historian and has previously worked as a researcher at the University of Cambridge covering the South Caucasus, Byzantium and Sasanian Iran.

Alongside work for the School Classics Project, he is Director of the Anglo-Georgian Archaeological Expedition to the important site of Nokalakevi in Samegrelo, West Georgia–a project he established in 2001 in collaboration with the Georgian National Museum. He speaks and reads Georgian and has been known to supervise for the Near East in the Age of Justinian and Muhammad course (History Faculty).

Akdamar Island in Van Lake, The Armenian Cathedral Church of the Holy Cross, Turkey
Akdamar Island, Lake Van

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Motsameta Monastery, Kutaisi, Georgia
Kutaisi, Georgia

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