It is no secret for anybody that, immediately after appearing on the world map early last century, Azerbaijan has been trying to write its own history, or rather rewrite the neighboring people’s history, to rank themselves with these peoples. New “masterworks” telling about the region’s scientific and cultural life permanently come from the pen of Azerbaijani “historians and scholars.” But the sense of rewriting history is not only in “disposing of what is unnecessary”, but also in making “historical” discoveries. Azerbaijani archeologists made a “retrospective” discovery: Shuhi is the ethnogenic area of the Azerbaijani people — as far back as the Mesozoic era AnthropoZERI-gnathostomes inhabited the area!

And here is a new startling discovery! The Trend News Agency refers to the Azeri writer and scholar Nurida Atashi, who said that “a study of the history of Amazons showed that Amazons inhabited the caves of Ana zaga and Yeddi gozal in Gobustan, and one of their most ancient settlements was located in the territory of the modern-day village of Sarybashlaar, Gahk region, Azerbaijan.”

To confirm her words, Ms. Atashi pointed out that the women of Gobustan were the world’s first women to tame bulls. She also reported that a Germany-base Nizami Ganjavi Culture Institute

(Nezāmi-ye Ganjavi [also spelled as Nizami and Neẓāmi], the greatest romantic epic poet in Persian literature, whom Azerbaijanis claim to be an Azeri poet as well) prepared an international research project on the Amazons of Gobustan and the Caucasus. A film about Amazons is to be shot under the project. “The aim of the project is to study the history of Caucasian Amazons and stir up international interest in Gobustan as a piece of ancient cultural heritage of Azerbaijan and of the entire world. Official agencies, NGOs as well as the mass media in many countries stated their willingness to support the project,” Atashi said.

Frederic Achilessian, an Armenian expert in Nezāmi-ye Ganjavi’s works and in the “Amazonian” history and culture, made the following comment: “Indeed, the respected Nizami Ganjavi Culture Institute is thoroughly examining the hypothesis about crafty Azeri Amazons, who captivated valiant young warriors. I would say the institute has focused its activities on finding new historical details of that phenomenon. And the results of the German scholars’ hard research work do not take long to appear. In Greek mythology Amazons were a race of women warriors of Scythia near the Black Sea. They went to war under their queens. According to some versions of the myth, to prevent their race from dying out, the Amazons visited a neighbouring tribe. The male children who were the result of the visits were either killed, or sent back to their fathers. The females were kept and brought up by their mothers, and trained in agricultural pursuits, hunting, and the art of war. The specialists of the Nizami Ganjavi Culture Institute have actually arrived at the conclusion that the aforementioned morals and manners were dominant in the caves of Ana zaga and Yeddi gozal in Gobustan. The study, however, does not explain the origin of Azerbaijani males. According to one of the versions, the Azeri Amazons had mercy on one of their male babes who was the results of a sexual intercourse between their queen and the king of the valiant AnthropoZERIS.”