Dariali: The 'Caspian Gates' in the Caucasus from Antiquity to the Age of the Huns and the Middle Ages: The Joint Georgian-British Dariali Gorge Excav

by Eberhard Sauer and Eberhard W. Sauer

The Huns, invading through Dariali Gorge on the modern-day border between Russia and Georgia in AD 395 and 515, spread terror across the late antique world. Was this the prelude to the apocalypse? Prophecies foresaw a future Hunnic onslaught, via the same mountain pass, bringing about the end of the world. Humanity's fate depended on a gated barrier deep in Europe's highest and most forbidding mountain chain.

Centuries before the emergence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789251923
• ISBN13: 9781789251920
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
• Length: 1088 Pages
• Weight: 9.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.8" x 8.5" x 12.0"