Levan Chilashvili
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'''Levan Chilashvili''' ({{lang-ka|ლევან ჭილაშვილი}}) ([[August 17]], [[1930]] – [[April 26]], [[2004]]) was a famous [[Georgia (country)|Georgian]] archaeologist and historian, an [[academician]] of the [[Georgian Academy of Sciences]] (GAS), Meritorious Scholar of Georgia, Doctor of Historical Sciences, and Professor.
In 1954, he graduated from the Faculty of History of [[Tbilisi State University]] (TSU), where he was also a professor from 1967 until his death in 2004. In [[1958]], Chilashvili received his PhD in History, and in 1967, he received a degree as Doctor of Historical Sciences.
In [[1991]], he was elected Academician of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (GAS).
Chilashvili was also Director of the [[State Museum of Georgia]] of the GAS (1980–[[2004]]).
In 1982, he was awarded the [[Simon Janashia]] Prize of the GAS.
Levan Chilashvili's main fields of scientific inquiry were archaeology and the history of ancient Georgia. From 1995 to [[2003]], Chilashvili's archaeological expedition in [[Nekresi]] (the [[Kakheti]] region of Eastern Georgia) discovered pre-Christian Georgian inscriptions from the [[1st Century|1st]] to the [[3rd Century|3rd]] centuries.
== See also ==
* [[List of Georgians]]
== Some of main scientific works of Levan Chilashvili ==
* "Town of Rustavi" (a monograph), Tbilisi, 1957 (in Georgian)
* "Ancient town Urbnisi" (a monograph), Tbilisi, 1964 (in Georgian)
* "Towns of Kakheti" (a monograph), Tbilisi, 1980 (in Georgian)
* "Areshi" (a monograph), Tbilisi, 1991 (in Georgian)
* "The Pre-Christian Georgian inscription from Nekresi".- E. Khintibidze (Ed.) "Kartvelology", No 7, Tbilisi, 2000
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[[Category:Georgian archaeologists]]
[[Category:Soviet archaeologists]]
[[Category:Georgian historians]]
[[Category:Soviet historians]]
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[[Category:Soviet scientists]]
[[Category:Tbilisi State University faculty]]