Career
As a scholar, Gagoshidze is chiefly known for his studies of the Achaemenid relics in Georgia. Gagoshidze was born in 1935 in Tbilisi, then-Soviet Georgia. He graduated from Tbilisi State University in 1958 and obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1985.
Beginning in 1968, Gagoshidze has led various archaeological expeditions to Israel, Cyprus, Azerbaijan, Georgia"s Ksani river valley, Samadlo, Dedoplistsqaro and other localities.
In 1991 he served as the head of local administration (prefect) of Mtskheta. From 2007 to 2009, Gagoshidze was a minister for Diaspora Issues in the Mikheil Saakashvili administration.
