District Swabi is located at 34̊ 24́’ N, 72̊ 45’́ E (Khan M B 2003: Arch Map) raising about 1200 ft. above the sea and covering the area of 471 square miles (Figure 1) (NWFP Gazetteer 1931: t 6). Th ... Read More
The monuments under discussion are unique and rare examples of their kind in the province in general and in Hazara region in particular. Of these the first one located at Naukot generally known as t ... Read More
By 1st century BC Buddhism was one of the prominent religions in South Asia. Buddhist worship was focused upon stupas (either rock cut or free standing) containing relics and smaller (votive) stupas ... Read More
In the collection of the National Museum Arts asiatiques-Guimet, Paris, France, there is a stele in schist of the Gandhara style, depicting the Buddha and the sixteen ascetics, inv. N° MA 12484. The ... Read More
The last excavations at Barikot (Trench BKG 11) were carried out in five seasons from 2011 to 2013, and were focused on the last Macro-phases (6 and 5) of the lower town of the ancient fortified set ... Read More
The Harappan research in Gujarat although initiated through an accidental discovery of script bearing ceramic at Vallabipur (Heras 1938), became a major area of research in Indian Archaeology throug ... Read More
In recent years biological anthropologists have expressed considerable reluctance in employing contrasts of differences in the allocation of tooth size across the permanent dentition for reconstruct ... Read More
The valley of Chitral is located in the Hindu Kush mountain range, in the very north west of Pakistan. It is generally characterised as a very remote area, and archaeological work here to date has b ... Read More
During the Integration Era of the Harappa Phase (2600-1900 BC), Harappan craftspeople fashioned an impressive array of material goods from a variety of raw materials. Among the most common and impor ... Read More
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