Qobustan

Qobustan is a settlement and municipality in Baku, Azerbaijan. It has a population of 14,470. Qobustan is satisfactory regarded for being the house to the well-known rock petroglyphs and mud volcanoes. The region has been settled because the eighth millennium BC. It is understood for website hosting hundreds of rock engravings spread over one hundred square km depicting looking scenes, human beings, ships, constellations and animals. Its oldest petroglyphs date from the twelfth century BC. In 2007, UNESCO included the 'Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape' inside the World Heritage list.

The Gobustan State Reserve was featured at some point of the Thirty-1/3 Session of the Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers. There are inscriptions close by left with the aid of a Roman Legionnaire around 75AD for the duration of the reign of Emperor Domitian that's the eastern-most Roman inscription ever observed. Gobustan is also famous for its mud volcanoes. Nearly 300 of the world's 700 dust volcanoes are positioned on this a part of japanese Azerbaijan near the Caspian Sea.