The territory of Babek region is rich with historical archaeological monuments. Natural and geographical conditions of the place caused settlement and habitation here of the tribes engaged in cultivation and animal breeding. The worldwide monuments such as 1st and 2nd Kultepe are in the territory of the region Babek.

Kultepe I is located on the left bank of Nakhchivanchay 14 km north from the centre of Babek region in the village Kultepe. The habitation refers to the Age of Eneolit and early Iron Age, i.e. 4th millennium B.C. and beginning of the 1st millennium A.D. The first appraisal survey carried out in 1904, but part of the revealed materials presented in 1905 to Tiflis Caucasus museum. In further digs revealed 22.2 m depth four cultural layers. Round planned living houses, with basis built of river stones and clay mixture and with the walls built of clay-mud, domestical building, fires and graves of single, double and collective burying revealed from the lower layer depth of which is 9 m. There were everyday equipments, labour tools and accessories in the graves. Also revealed coloured plates brought from the countries of Near East. The living houses referred to the Bronze age (3rd millennium B.C.), tools and equipment, grey and black plates with cleaving design and script decoration, figures of the animals, carbonised barley, wheat and millet found in 9.5 m depth 2nd layer. The cultural layer of 2 m depth recovered the materials of middle and later Bronze Age. The fourth layer was 1.5 m depth that revealed the samples referred to the early Iron Age. All the abovementioned findings are typical for Kur-Araz cult. Found here polychromatic coloured plates are, for their artistic structure, one of the rare specimen of art of Azerbaijan and the whole ancient world.

Kultepe II is located 16 km north from the centre of the region Babek, near the villages Didivar and Yukhari Uzunbora, in the joint of the rivers Jehrichay and Nakhchivanchay. The habitation refers to the 4th-1st millenniums B.C. round living buildings, walls for protection, domestic buildings, labour tools made of stone, bronze and bone, clay plates, carbonised remnants of the grain and animal bones revealed from the deepest layer referred to Kur-Araz cult after investigation of 14 m depth four cultural layers. The second layer revealed potter workshops, potter?s wheel, remnants of smelting furnace, tools for metal procession, domestic tools and constructions. The samples of material cult found here point to economic and cultural relations with the states of Near East.

Another monument of the region of Babek-Chalkhangala tower, referred to the Bronze Age locates 28 km north-west from the centre of the region near the village Payiz, on the right bank of the river Jehrichay in favourable natural condition. The tower is located on a high mountain and surrounded by large stone walls. It is supposed to be the main building of defence of large units of the tribes formed in the 2nd millennium B.C. many samples of material cult revealed during the archaeological dig.

The tower Abbasabad is located 4 km south-west from the centre of the region on the bank of the river Araz. The tower reminds military fortification. It was built in 1809-1810 on the project of French military professionals. The tower is in the form of a pentagon and its bulwarks served for protection. The tower is surrounded with water irrigation ditch and many times was a place of battle. The remnants of the tower remained under water when Araz water reservoir built.

Also revealed and investigated archaeological monuments of scientific importance referred to Eneolit, Bronze, Iron and Antic age, old salt field, habitations, necropolis, remnants of material cult referred to the Middle Ages and many other archaeological, historical and architectural monuments and rich materials in the territory of the region. Newly established monuments are the mosque ?Heydar? in the village Cheshmebasar and mosques in the villages Nehram, Gahab, Zeynabbin, Jahri, Sirab and the settlement Babek.

One can also find in the centre of the region the sculpture of Babek, monumental complex of martyrs, Martyr spring in Cheshmebasar and the memorial monument of participators of the Great Patriotic War in Tumbul.