Ishag Mammadrza oglu Jafarzadeh (; August 14, 1895 in Ganja – January 5, 1982 in Baku) was one of the pioneers of Azerbaijan archaeology and ethnography. He excavated over seventy artifacts on Azerbaijan's territory and studied the Gobustan rock paintings. In 1948, during the Gobustan expedition, he discovered the Latin rock inscription near mountain Boyukdash, 70 km from Baku, which is the easternmost Roman evidence to be known.

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"Azərbaycanın qədim tarixi" ("Ancient History of Azerbaijan"), Azərb. SSR EA Tarix və Fəlsəfə İnstitutunun əsərləri, c. 1, B., 1961 Историко-археологический очерк очерк старой Ганджи (Родина Низами) (Historico-Archaeological Sketch on Old Ganja), Б., 1949 Гобустан. Наскальные изображения (Gobustan. The Rock Paintings), Б., 1973

Ishag Jafarzadeh

1895 births

1982 deaths

20th-century archaeologists

People from Ganja, Azerbaijan

Baku State University alumni

Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour

Azerbaijani archaeologists

Azerbaijani ethnographers

Soviet archaeologists

Soviet ethnographers

Ishag Jafarzadeh