The birthplace of Mr. Muhammad Hayat was village Jhawariyan, in District Sargodha, and the date was 4th February 1934. After receiving secondary education, he started working as a teacher at a local s ... Read More
In Hunza at the Fort of Altit on 27th of December 1924, a child gets birth, was named Ghulam Musa after the dreams of his father Qalander Ali and by identifying his t’aliya related to the Prophet Mos ... Read More
This note presents a preliminary study on the terracotta figurines collected at the urban site of Barikot/Bīr-koṭ-ghwaṇḍai. The site, lying in the middle stretch of the Swat Valley, Northwestern Pak ... Read More
Physical characteristics such as colour of the potsherds, colour of the groundmass, isotropism, texture, grain size distribution, maximum grain size, roundness and sphericity of the non-plastic incl ... Read More
Peshawar Museum was established in 1905 and is the fourth oldest museum in Pakistan. It presents a blend mixture of British and Rajastani architectural elements. It has the largest Gandhara Buddhist ... Read More
This paper discusses the remains of a number of temples found in Mohalla Wachowali within the walled city of Lahore. These temples were described in 1886 by Kanhaiya Lal, in his book ‘Tarikh-e-Lahor ... Read More
Colonialism is the form of the ascendance of individuals or groups on the states and departments of people. In the Indian sub-continent, the cultural domination of colonizers on the minds of the col ... Read More
This article questions whether the expression “Ismaili castles” is appropriate to describe the fortifications of the historical region of Quhistān, in Eastern Iran. “Ismaili castle” is a locution la ... Read More
The study aims to trace the history of Tarawara community Tehsil Oghi, district Mansehra in the province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. Tarawara. community with 500 speakers of a dying language resides on ... Read More
Swat valley is located in the northern part of the province of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa in Pakistan. The starting point of this article is the recent publication by the same author of the volume named Top ... Read More
he focus of this paper is on the history and archaeology of a village that was a part of the Panjgur district, then Kharan district, and now again a part of Panjgur district. Historically, it has be ... Read More
his paper presents the discovery of the first archaeological evidence of early historic transhumant settlement at the Shati Das. The site is located on the left bank of Indus River near the famous S ... Read More
To better understand and more effectively address the complexity of the art of Gandhara, its development out of cross-cultural encounters and exchanges, and the multivalent meanings that emerged out ... Read More
In recent years the Karakalpak-Australian Expedition (KAE) carried out archaeological fieldwork at the royal Chorasmian seat of Akchakhan-kala unearthing a large corpus of wall paintings. This imagery ... Read More
Akhtar Munir, nicknamed “Tota”, was born at Panr in 1949 in a family of humble origins. He was constantly marked, for all his life, by an exceptional intellectual spirit, and by an inextinguishable ... Read More
Star is the enigmatic shape in ornamental designs, especially those bedecking the Muslim edifices. Intricacies of its geometric shapes combine unity within disparity, the substrate of which lies in ... Read More
Taxila valley is among the six World Heritage Sites of Pakistan. The present research was conducted at the Taxila World Heritage Site and observations were made to query about the current situation ... Read More
Walled cities of Peshawar and Lahore shares both architectural characters and decaying patterns. This research is based on the historical background of both cities, their architectural and spatial ... Read More
The present article wants to describe some of the fundamental principles and modes concerning the path of spiritual self-realization as outlined by the authorities of Sufism within the Islamic tradi ... Read More
Rawalpindi is an important and historical city in South Asia. It has its links with Gandhara Civilization and has been a cultural nexus and invasion route for centuries. It has been invaded by Greek ... Read More
The introduction of printing press and camera during 19th century in India, mark the end of traditions of handwritten book. The method of printing mostly adopted all over India, including the region ... Read More
Tradition and symbols are pervasive across cultures. Religio-cultural traditions are thought to have multiple origins and genres with somewhat related meanings. The Taazia myth dates back to the rei ... Read More
An almost unknown variety of ceramics, archaeologically unattested, embellished with a plethora of painted motifs, has appeared more often on the antiquities market over the last twenty years. While ... Read More
Recent archaeological excavations at Bhamāla have brought to light many important discoveries in the history of Buddhist art and architecture. One of these is the parinirvāṇa statue of Buddha measu ... Read More
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