SWISS DELEGATION VISITS HISTORICAL CULTURAL RESERVE GOBUSTAN
The delegation of the Swiss Confederation led by President Pascal Couchepin traveled to historical cultural reserve “Gobustan” located 65 kilometers Southwest of Baku, on Sunday. The visitors were informed that the reserve included 5 mountains called Boyukdash, Kichikdash, Jingirdash, Shongardash and Sykhgaya.
The reserve has more than 600,000 rock paintings, which depict primitive men, animals, battle-pieces, ritual dances, bullfights, boats with armed oarsmen, warriors with lances in their hands, camel caravans, pictures of sun and stars, on the average dating back to 5,000-20,000 years. UNESCO included the Gobustan Rock Art Cultural Landscape in the World Heritage list. President Couchepin said he had been aware of Azerbaijan’s rich culture, but has made completely certain of that after seeing the rock paintings.
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