Stone Chronicle of Gobustan + Bibi-Heybat Mosque and Fisherman's Village of the XIX Century

Car excursion to Historico – Gobustan Art Reserve. The tour begins with a visit to a modern interactive museum, in which the tourist receives general information about the parking of an ancient person, his life and life, as well as information about the flora and fauna of the period of human settlement of these places. After visiting the museum, tourists by car climb to the mountain ranges destroyed by earthquakes. As a result of this destruction, caves were formed where people lived. On the walls of shelters and adjacent rocks carved images (petroglyphs) of people, animals, hunting scenes and various signs belonging to the Upper Paleolithic period. Currently, the number of identified drawings exceeds 6 thousand. Gobustan Reserve was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. The famous Norwegian explorer and traveler Thor Heyerdahl visited Gobustan and wrote a book about his sensational discoveries. Also of interest to visitors of the reserve is found here a rock with a Latin inscription, dating from the 1st century. This inscription tells about the stay in Gobustan of the centurion (hundreds) of the XII Lightning Roman Legion during the reign of Emperor Domitian Caesar Augustus Germanicus. The inscription was left by the centurion Lucius Julius Maximus.