Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape

The Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape is an extensive reserve that chronicles almost 40,000 years of continuous human history. The site contains an outstanding collection of more than 7,000 rock engravings (petroglyphs) depicting scenes of hunting, fauna, flora and lifestyles from the Upper Palaeolithic era to the Middle Ages. Beyond the rock art, the landscape features inhabited caves, settlements and burials, providing evidence of intensive human activity during the wetter period following the last Ice Age. Unique elements of the site include the “Gaval Dash”, a resonant musical stone, and the easternmost known Roman inscription, left by the Legio XII Fulminata in the 1st century AD.