Historical and Artistic Reserve "Gobustan"

Gobustan State Historical and Artistic Reserve is a plain with a cultural landscape of rock paintings that occupy an area of about 540 hectares.

In Gobustan, you can look at numerous rock paintings and ancient sites that testify to the inhabitants of the region of ancient epochs, namely the Paleolithic and Middle Ages.

The name “Gobustan” literally means “the edge of ravines”. The first archaeological excavations carried out here began in the 30s of the twentieth century, when Ishak Jafarzade discovered in Gobustan 3500 rock images, pits, caves and other historically significant objects. In 1965, 300 new cave paintings, more than 20 dwellings and 40 burial mounds were found.

In 2007, the cave paintings and the reserve itself were included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.