Day: September 26, 2018

By Rafiullah Khan The ancient history and archaeology of Swat valley, Pakistan, has been at par with other archaeologically and historically well-studied areas of South and Central Asia. It was first systematically explored by well-known scholar Sir Aurel Stein in 1926. His interest was two-fold, history of Buddhism and Greeks. However, the area became stirring in the context of Tibetan Buddhism to Professor Giuseppe Tucci, the leading protagonist of Italian Archaeological Mission to Pakistan from 1955 till his death in 1984. His various seminal works about Swat (between 1940 and 1977) recently saw the light of day in the...