Palace carpets in ancient and early middle ages in Azerbaijan historical traditions of its creation

Abstract

The article discusses the history of the palace complexes in the Manna and Median lands in the ancient Azerbaijani states and the tools used in their decoration. As you know, at the end of the 3rd millennium BC, at the beginning of the 1st millennium BC, architecture and decorativeapplied arts developed in the state of Manna. The presence of carpets in the palaces of the Manna state is not in doubt, because according to scholars, the development of Median, Achaemenian and Scythian art benefited from the art of Manna. Sources show that during the time of Astyages, the f loors of the Medians were decorated with magnificent carpets. The carpets discovered from the Turkish-Scythian mounds of Altai were classified by experts as Median culture.