Why go
Dmanisi is one of the most significant paleoanthropological sites on Earth. In 1991, a team led by David Lordkipanidze unearthed 1.8-million-year-old Homo erectus skulls—the oldest hominin fossils found outside Africa, rewriting the story of human migration. These discoveries revealed that early humans left Africa far earlier than previously believed, with brains smaller than expected yet capable of long-distance dispersal. Above the excavation pit lies a medieval town with a 9th–10th century fortress and a 16th-century brick mosque, built during the Ottoman period. The layers of history—deep prehistoric past and medieval Islamic Georgia—make this a site of rare depth.