Employees of the Jeirakh-Assinsky Museum-Reserve, during the monitoring of the Muhul tower complex, photographed petroglyphs located on the residential tower of the complex. Muhul is a tower complex northwest of Gwezi.

Petroglyphs on stones are found throughout mountain Ingushetia - these are one of the important religious components. In addition to single images of humans and animals, there are often fantastic and symbolic images, geometric and other abstract figures. Some of them resemble solar signs, while others are graphic signs resembling writing. Often you can see carved on stone slabs images of a human hand.

There are petroglyphs made in point technology. Among the plots of the petroglyphs of Ingushetia, genre ones are distinguished, depicting scenes of hunting, creation of the world, etc. The architectural structures on which they are depicted date back to the 14th and 18th centuries, but it is quite obvious that the stones with petroglyphs in the masonry of these towers are reused. This is evidenced by the location of stones with petroglyphs in the masonry, which differ from the color of the stones of the main masonry. The greatest number of petroglyphs is found on the facades of residential towers, less often on religious buildings and battle towers. Sometimes there are petroglyphs on the stelae.

Ingush poet A.T. Khashagulgov, who devoted many years to collecting ethnographic material, interviewed many old people, collecting outdated words and folklore motifs, in his poem notes that the meaning of the symbols on the stones is irretrievably lost:

Dysad Ma'an t'yapa deshash,

Kustash a kherash t'a deca

Hanz Ukhaz Yukhaza Dyhka,

Latt vai king hyarkas deshas

(Dzaurova T. A.-Kh. “Ingush National Ornament”)

Researcher A.S. Dozariev in his scientific publication “On some monuments of decorative and graphic art of the Ingush” writes:

As studies show, it is impossible to say with accuracy for what purpose these or other petroglyphs were applied, although the cult-magical context here seems to us certain. At the same time, it is safe to say that the decorative and graphic art of the Ingush has its roots in ancient times. Thus, in a detailed study of this cultural phenomenon, it is impossible not to notice, for example, the similarity of Ingush solar signs with images on objects of Koban culture of the Caucasus, found immediately in Ingushetia (Meadow burial ground, I thousand BC). Known parallels are also found in the culture of the ancient Sumerians, Iranians, Celts, etc.”

The material was prepared in order to protect, preserve and popularize objects of cultural heritage of the republic.