The Cave of Dzhebel is a prehistoric site about 3 kilometres north of the city near the eastern shore of the Krasnovodsk Gulf. Excavated by Soviet archaeologists in the mid-20th century, the cave revealed a sequence of human occupation from the Mesolithic through the Bronze Age — stone tools, animal bones from species long extinct in the region, and human skeletal remains pointing to roughly 10,000 years of intermittent habitation.
The site has no formal tourist infrastructure, but it is reachable from the city and worth the effort for anyone interested in Central Asian prehistory. The surrounding landscape — rocky and arid, overlooking the Caspian — is striking on its own terms. A local driver who knows the area is the practical way to find it.