A few kilometres east of Aqsu, near the village of Bazavand, low mounds and broken walls mark the site of 18th-century "New Shemakha" — a short-lived attempt to rebuild the Shirvanshah capital on a new spot after the original city had been wrecked by yet another earthquake. The settlement lasted barely a generation before that, too, was abandoned and the population resettled at modern Şamaxı.
The ruins are not signposted or explained on site; there is no museum or visitor centre. What survives is mostly the trace of the city plan visible in the contours of the field — for casual visitors a curiosity rather than a destination, but for anyone interested in Shirvani history it is a poignant footnote.