National Archive restores old Georgian maps
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Unique maps preserved in storage of Georgia’s National Archive in Tbilisi will be renovated and converted into digital format.
Renovation works have already started at the Laboratory of Restoration of National Archive. The restoration work is a part of the Electronic Cartography project.
This year almost 50 old and unique maps showing Georgia’s boundaries and territories in the 18-20th Centuries were renovated and published on the Internet.
Map of the Russia-Turkey war published in 1829. From the collection of Georgia's National Archive.
Map of North-West Caucasus dated 1816, Caucasus map published in 1903 as well as dozens of other cartography pieces can be found at the Georgia’s National Archive’s Flick account.
The Electronic Cartography project aimed to provide identification and digitalisation of these old maps and put them together in the online catalogue.
A new, modern building has opened today that will house precious archived records earlier preserved in the Kvemo Kartli region of Georgia.
New tiers and caves have been discovered at the historical Vardzia complex in Georgia’s southwest by researchers, with artifacts also found at the site in a newly initiated project.
A handful of the earliest preserved Georgian manuscripts have been selected to feature in a UNESCO historical database for their "world significance and outstanding universal value”.
Georgia’s National Agency of Public Registry has launched a project to digitalise and create an online archive of unique historical maps of Georgia that are accessible to citizens all over the country.
Tens of thousands of archived items have been restored within the past year as part of the National Archives of Georgia project, as announced by the agency's report on 2015.
A selection of unique maps of Georgia over the last 20 centuries is set to present the history of geographers’ understanding of the country at Tbilisi’s Literature Museum starting today.
Electronic versions of posters and programmes of Georgian theatrical performances, documentary and animated movies and other events have been published on the website of the National Archives of Georgia.