Boyəhməd

Boyəhməd (also, Bəyəhməd and Boyakhmed) is a village and municipality in the Julfa District of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan.

It is located 64 km in the north from the district center, on the left bank of the Alinjachay River, on the slope of the Zangezur ridge.

As a result of the using as arable land from the area where the monument is located the surface materials and the cultural layer were destroyed.

On the surface of the land have been found the fragments of the pottery, the grain-stones in pink and gray colored made from the tuff.

Here were found the broken parts of the millstone made from the white stone, in the middle is the hole with a diameter of 10 sm and products of clay in pink and gray colored.

A bit in distance from cemetery, during road construction, the settlement has been cut, the cultural layer (thickness in 0,5-1,5 m) was destroyed.

In the Middle Ages, the settlement has expanded towards to the north-east and covered the territory of present-day village of Boyahmed.

In 1991, the archaeological expedition did research of the two destroyed and two unharmed grave monument in the Boyahmed necropolis, have been collected some of the findings from the local population and handed over to the Museum of History and Ethnography of Julfa region.

From the stone box graves, were found many ornaments, the bronze daggers, pitchfork, chain, spear tip and other materials.

), and from the grave were found the clay products in gray-colored (pitchers, plates, goblets, bowls, trays etc.).

It is located on the slope of the high mountain limited by deep valley in the north and south-east.