{"id":298,"date":"2024-12-26T07:35:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-26T07:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/visitazerbaijantoday.com\/?p=298"},"modified":"2024-12-26T07:35:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T07:35:19","slug":"discover-gobustansancient-rock-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visitazerbaijantoday.com\/?p=298","title":{"rendered":"discover Gobustan&#8217;sancient rock art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">From prehistoric rock art to musical stones, the Azerbaijani people\u2019s prehistoric past comes dramatically to life in the Gobustan State Reserve, home to an astonishing collection of over 6,000 ancient petroglyphs. Depicting scenes of people, warriors, animals, boats, dances, hunting, camel caravans and more, they\u00a0chart ways of life dating back between 5,000 and 20,000 years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Established in 1966 and covering 537 ha, the Gobustan State Reserve is located amid the Boyukdash, Kichikdash and Jingirdagh mountains, about 60 kilometres south of Baku. Besides all the breathtaking rock art, visitors can also explore the remains of caves, settlements and burial grounds used by humans between the Upper\u00a0Paleolithic\u00a0and the Middle Ages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Two more of the reserve&#8217;s highlights include an inscription left on a rock by a passing Roman soldier in\u00a0the 1st\u00a0century AD, the easternmost\u00a0Roman inscription ever found, and a 2m-long musical stone called a &#8216;gaval dash,&#8217; which makes a unique tambourine-like sound when struck with a smaller stone.\u00a0What\u2019s more, just a short drive away you can discover the mystery of Azerbaijan\u2019s many mud volcanoes, one of the world\u2019s most intriguing natural wonders.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From prehistoric rock art to musical stones, the Azerbaijani people\u2019s prehistoric past comes dramatically to life in the Gobustan State Reserve, home to an astonishing collection of over 6,000 ancient petroglyphs. Depicting scenes of people, warriors, animals, boats, dances, hunting, camel caravans and more, they\u00a0chart ways of life dating back between 5,000 and 20,000 years.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitazerbaijantoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitazerbaijantoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitazerbaijantoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitazerbaijantoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitazerbaijantoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/visitazerbaijantoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300,"href":"https:\/\/visitazerbaijantoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitazerbaijantoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visitazerbaijantoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitazerbaijantoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visitazerbaijantoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}