The Department of History and Archaeology was established in Ju­ne 1993 within the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Khazar University. The Department is one of the first and leading units of Khazar University with wide academic and research interests. From 1993 to 2020, the Department of History and Archaeology was headed by Ph.D. Roza Arazova. Currently, the Department is managed by the coordinator Orkhan Zamanov. The Department was renamed in 2007 as the Department of History and Archaeology.