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Destinations
Rock art · the dry hills south of Baku
Gobustan
Stories written in stone
Gobustan’s rock engravings offer glimpses of prehistoric life through human figures, animals and scenes preserved on the rocks.
Prehistoric engravings on open limestone, made by people who hunted and sailed here long before the Silk Road.
The petroglyphs at Gobustan are carved into flat rock among low hills, with a museum that sets out the archaeology. This is a landscape you read rather than a monument you look at, and the walking is over uneven stone.
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