The Burial ground of the principality (Georgian: სამთავროს სამაროვანი, romanized: samtavros samarovani) also known as Samtavro necropolis, is a cemetery north of Mtskheta, Georgia, dated between the middle of the third millennium BC and the 10th century. It was first excavated by F. Bayern in the 1870s and 1880.[1] Excavations began again in 1938 by A. Kalandadze and still continue.