Msket

Msket, also written MTSCKETHA and otherwise, probably the most ancient town of the Caucasus, and down to the 5th century the capital of the old Georgian kings, stands on the south side of the Caucasus, 10 miles NNW. of Tiflis. It contains a cathedral, already existing in the 4th century, in which the Georgian kings were crowned and buried. When the Poti-Tiflis Railway was constructed, an ancient necropolis was laid bare; the graves were those of a cannibal race, and furnished proof that the modern Georgians are the direct descendants of the ancient Iberi.