Researchers of the Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences — Professor Aliaga Mammadli, Doctor of Anthropological Sciences and Head of the Department of Anthropology; Akif Guliyev, PhD in History and Head of the Department of Forensic Archaeology; and Arif Guliyev, researcher of the same department and doctoral student at Ankara University — participated in the III International Congress of Anthropological Sciences held in Ankara, Republic of Türkiye.

At the congress, hosted by Ankara University, Professor Aliaga Mammadli presented a paper titled “An Overview of the System of Interrelations among Ethnic Groups Living in Azerbaijan.” Akif Guliyev delivered a presentation on *“The First Studies in Forensic Archaeology in Azerbaijan,” while Arif Guliyev spoke on “Research in Forensic Archaeology and Forensic Anthropology Conducted after the Second Karabakh War.”

The international scientific congress brought together scholars from Türkiye, the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Italy, the People’s Republic of China, the United States, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and Canada. Foreign anthropologists expressed strong interest in the Azerbaijani presentations, particularly regarding research on Azerbaijan’s multiethnic diversity, the identification of prisoners and missing persons through skeletal analysis, and the important scientific results achieved by Azerbaijani archaeologists and anthropologists in the study of ancient history.