This article is devoted to the question of the authorship of the "History of the Country of Aluank".

The absolute age of the oldest, lowest layers in the coastal marshes of Colchis Lowland, along with the monolithic nature of the peat horizons, indicates that the peat-forming process has been continuously ongoing for the past 6.000 years.

It has been 90 years since the birth of the famous German archaeologist, orientalist, and researcher of pre-Anatolian and ancient history Winfried Orthmann.