[1] The mountain is noted for its rock art and for its panoramic views of the Atlas range.
[2] There are over thousand engraved images on the rocks dating back to 500 - 1000 BC.
Experts point out that these inscriptions date back to about 1500 BC, and document the migrations of pastoral tribes towards mountainous areas due to climatic fluctuations, and due to the availability of this region on minerals that were used during the Bronze Age.
This site was registered as a national heritage of Morocco in order to protect it from vandalism and to qualify it to become a tourist attraction in the region In 2012,[3] a group of Moroccan Salafists destroyed an inscription from the archaeological site of the Yagour plateau, known as "the panel of the sun", believing that it was the incarnation of the sun god.
[4][5][6] The Yagoul Plateau is subject to the Agdal pastoral system, where shepherds are forbidden to exploit the area at the beginning of spring, until the community decides to do so after pasture flourishes in the pastures, so all neighboring tribes flock to the area to benefit from their share of grazing, and horses and other animals are left free in the area throughout the Agdal grazing period.