Pakistan is home to two great ancient civilisations, namely the Indus Valley and the Gandhara civilisations. The unique and magnificent culture of this part of the world owes a lot to them. Gandhara ...
A treasure trove of artefacts belonging to the ancient Gandhara civilisation that existed from the middle of the first millennium BCE to the beginning of the second millennium CE, in what is ...
It's morning in Battersea Park in London, and I'm standing near the river, next to the Peace Pagoda. Every day, watched by four gilded Buddha statues, a Japanese Buddhist monk drums his way over the ...
A treasure trove of relics of the finest quality displayed in the Heritage Gallery of the National Museum Karachi traces the history of Gandhara and Indus Valley - two ancient civilizations that ...
In 2001, when the Taliban blew up the monumental statues of the Buddha at Bamiyan in Afghanistan, it marked a tragic low in the history of religious iconoclasm. The destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas, ...