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Archaeological Museum Banbhore or Banbhore Museum is an archaeological museum located in Banbhore, Sindh, Pakistan. The museum was established by the Department of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Pakistan, on 21 August 1960. The museum was inaugurated on 14 May 1967.
Banbhore, Bambhore, Bhanbhore or Bhambhore (Sindhi: ڀنڀور; Urdu: بھنبھور) is a city dating to the 1st century BCE located in modern-day Sindh, Pakistan. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The city ruins lie on the N-5 National Highway , east of Karachi .
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Archaeological Site of Ranigat: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: 2004 ii, iv (cultural) The archaeological site of Ranigat is the largest Buddhist monastic complex in the Gandhara region, where a culture blending the Hellenistic, Buddhist, and Indo-Parthian traditions flourished between the 2nd century BCE and 6th century CE. The monastery was founded in ...
The port city of Banbhore was established before the Christian era which served as an important trade hub in the region, the port was recorded by various names by the Greeks such as Krokola, Morontobara port, and Barbarikon, a sea port of the Indo-Greek Bactrian kingdom and Ramya according to some Greek texts. [1]
Rashid joined Bhairab College as a lecturer in History and then he moved to join the Archaeology of Pakistan. He worked as a curator at Lahore Museum and later joined the Taxila Museum. Along with British archaeologist Mortimer Wheeler, he excavated Banbhore, Taxila, Harappa, Mohenjo-daro and many other sites of Pakistan. [1]
He joined the Department of Archaeology, Pakistan and excavated at Banbhore, Swat (Pant, Saidu-I and Saidu-II), Moenjodaro and Tulamba. As a museum curator , he was in charge of museums at Harappa , Umerkot , Moenjodaro , Lahore Fort and Taxila .
The Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic sites found by Karachi University team on the Mulri Hills, in front of Karachi University Campus, constitute one of the most important archaeological discoveries made in Sindh during the last fifty years.