Gobustan State Historical and Cultural Reserve
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How it came to be
On a rocky plateau in the semi-desert about 70 kilometres south-west of Baku, Azerbaijan, are more than 6,000 rock engravings. From a warmer, wetter time after the last Ice Age into the Middle Ages, people lived in the caves and settlements here and buried their dead.
The rocks show people and animals, hunting and dancing, reed boats, and the sun and stars, and in places newer images were cut over older ones. In June 1948 a Latin inscription was found on a rock on the slope of Boyukdash mountain.
The area was protected as a state preserve in 1966 and inscribed in 2007, when it was also made a national reserve by presidential decree. The inscribed site covers 537 hectares in three areas.
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