Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape

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• Maurice Rufin

  25 March 2018

  Try to understand why people choose this place 10000 years ago.
  Btw notice that most of few plants growing there are edible (and very tasty)

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• Arzu Gurbanli

  05 February 2018

  Gobustan National Park (Azerbaijani: Qobustan Milli Parkı), officially Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape, is a hill and mountain site occupying the southeast end of the Greater Caucasus mountain ridge in Azerbaijan, mainly in the basin of Jeyrankechmaz River, between the rivers Pirsagat and Sumgait. It is located west of the settlement of Gobustan, about 40 miles (64 km) southwest of the centre of Baku on the west bank of the Caspian Sea.
  
  The territory of Gobustan is cut up with numerous, sometimes rather deep ravines (in Azerbaijani: gobu). That is a suggested origin of the Gobustan geographical name.
  
  In 1966 Gobustan was declared a national historical landmark of Azerbaijan in an attempt to preserve the ancient carvings, relics, mud volcanoes and gas-stones in the region. The mountains Boyukdash, Kichikdash, Jingirdag, and the Yazili hill were taken under legal government protection. These mountains are located near the Caspian Sea, in the southeast part of Gobustan.
  
  Ancient Petroglyphs at Gobustan National Park, Azerbaijan. UNESCO World Heritage Site.
  In 2007 Gobustan was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site considered to be of "outstanding universal value" for the quality and density of its rock art engravings, for the substantial evidence the collection of rock art images presents for hunting, fauna, flora and lifestyles in pre-historic times and for the cultural continuity between prehistoric and medieval times that the site reflects.

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• Argun Konuk

  07 August 2017

  It is a cool place I would say. You can see the paintings done by the cave men. Also there is a small and a modern museum at the entrance of the area. The place is an hour drive away from Baku. If you have extra time, here is a nice place for a day trip.

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• Pip Rib

  11 March 2017

  Interesting carvings on the rocks and beautiful views.

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• Ahmed Yahya

  05 February 2017

  good place

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• Sipan Melqonyan

  20 January 2017

  Bed

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• Andrew C.

  10 September 2016

  Great place!

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• Anne Sunfrid Lyon

  08 August 2016

  Great mud volcanoes, and also remains from a stone age settlement with wall paintings still intact.

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