Petroglyph :: ARTSAKH HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Petroglyph BC 4 m․

NKR / Karvajar / Istisu

Description

The surface of basalt rocks south of the village Chragh, in the area between lakes Sev (Gharagol) and Zalkha, over 3000 m above the sea is covered by numerous and versatile rock carvings dating back to the IV-III Mill. BC. It seems, they are quite similar to the rock carvings discovered in the Gueghama, Vardenis and Syunik mountain ranges of Armenia, but due to the fact that Karvajar was included into Azerbaijan they missed the attention of Armenian scientists. Beginning with 1976 these rock carvings were investigated by archeologist Gudrat Ismayilov, later also by Nasir Rzayev from Baku.

Nasir Rzayev, The Rocks are Speaking (in Azerbaijanian), Baku, 1985, p. 43-45.
Samvel Karapetian, Armenian Cultural Monuments in the Region of Karabakh, Yerevan, 2001, p. 68.