Gobustan (5 hours)

Museums of petroglyphs of Neolithic Age under the open sky (65 km from Baku city) Gobustan.

Gobustan – rocky area outspreading at the southeast of Big Caucuses ridge, allocated in 60 km from Baku is the territory, on which antique man habituated. “Gobu” in azerbaijanian idiom means beam. Hereby it is emerged name Gobustan – edge of beams and ravines. The sea once came up to foots of those not high mountains, but from time to time it was stepped back being left its specific marks.
In mountains of Gobustan Beyukdash, Kichikdash, Djingirdag and Shighgaya there were concentrated witnesses of the past of azerbaijanian nation of the epoch of Stone Age and ongoing periods – rocky paintings, camp of man, tombstones and etc. The most significant of them are rocky pictures – petroglyphs, carved by primitive men on walls of caves, rocks and stony lumps. The aforesaid primitive monuments of art reflect culture, economy, world outlook, customs and traditions of ancient azerbaijanian peoples.

Rocky paintings of Gobustan are related to different epochs and being dated from 10-8 thousand years of B. C till Middle Ages. Upon coverage of such a big historical period they occupy high place among other rocky collections of the world. Part of drawings were graven in that term when in Gobustan, presumably, there were tropical climate, the landscape of it have had a nature of savanna with the richest flora and fauna. Water and food abundance could serve as a promotion to diversification of alive nature. On rocky pictures one might contemplate paintings of animals, habituated here for the term of ultimate 10 thousands years – djeyran (roes), wild goats, deer, savage pigs, horses, lions and etc. As well as there are met drawings of birds, fishes, snakes, lizards and different types of insects.

Rocky drawings of Gobustan are extremely touched the interests of the illustrious scientist and traveler Tur Kheyerdal, who visited that place several times. Having explored identical pictures of boats in Gobustan and Norway, he set out hypothesis as to that ancestors of ancient Vikings had arrived in Scandinavia on their boats from coasts of Caspian Sea.

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