Archaeological Sites in Pakistan
City/town/settlement in Pakistan (33)
Allahdino
Allahdino is a small village belonging to the Harappan period, located 40 kilometres east of Karachi. It is an unfortified settlement of 1.4 hectares, established in a coastal…
Amri, Sindh
Amri is an ancient settlement in modern-day Sindh, Pakistan, that goes back to 3600 BCE. The site is located south of Mohenjo Daro on Hyderabad-Dadu Road more than 100 kilometres…
Banbhore
Banbhore is an ancient city dating to the 1st century BCE, located in Sindh, Pakistan on the N-5 National Highway east of Karachi. It originated during the Scytho-Parthian era and…
Barikot
Barikot is a town in the middle course of the Swat River in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, situated about 20 km from Mingora and the Butkara Stupa. The site contains an ancient…
Bhir Mound
The Bhir Mound is an archaeological site in Taxila in the Punjab province of Pakistan. The Bhir Mound archaeological remains represent one stage of the historic city of Taxila.…
Chakdara
Chakdara has been an important center for the last 3,500 years and is littered with remains of the Gandhara grave culture, Buddhist sites, and Hindu Shahi forts. The most…
Chanhudaro
Chanhudaro is one of the most important sites of Indus civilization. Chanhu-Daro was investigated in 1931 by the Indian archaeologist N. G. Majumdar. Evidence of shell working was…
Dabarkot
Dabarkot, or Dabar Kot, is a tell site of the Indus Civilization in Balochistan, Pakistan. It is situated in Duki district. Various artifacts and figurines excavated from the area…
Fort Abbas
The region of Fort Abbas is associated with the ancient Ghaggar Hakra river system, which is believed by many scholars to represent a former river course linked to early urban…
Ganweriwal
Ganweriwal, more commonly known as Ganweriwala, is an archaeological site in the Cholistan Desert of southern Punjab, Pakistan. The site was rediscovered in the 1970s by Mohammad…
Ghazi Shah Mound
Ghazi Shah Mound is an ancient archaeological site in Johi Tehsil, Dadu District, Sindh, Pakistan, among the earliest Indus Valley civilization settlements dating back 4000-6000…
Harappa
Harappa was a settlement in Punjab, Pakistan, about 24 kilometres west of Sahiwal. The city of Harappa is believed to have had as many as 23,500 residents and occupied about 150…
Hathial
Hathial is an ancient archaeological site next to Bhir Mound, just south of Sirkap, in the area of Taxila in Pakistan. It is quite a large site, in which red burnished ware and…
Judeir-jo-daro
Judeir-jo-daro, also known as Damb Judeir, is an archaeological site dating back to the Harappan period in Balochistan, Pakistan. The city, during its time, was a moderate sized…
Kot Bala
Kot Bala (Balakot) is an archaeological site in Lasbela District, Balochistan, Pakistan, about 55 miles north of Karachi on Sonmiani Bay. Dating to c. 4000 BC, it is one of five…
Kot Diji
The excavation at Kot Diji during 1954-55 by F. A. Khan revealed convincing evidence of the early or formative stage of the Indus civilisation in the cultural assemblage called…
Kulachor
Kulachor is an ancient settlement in Gujrat District, Punjab, Pakistan, located approximately 16 kilometers northeast of Gujrat city, adjacent to Jalalpur Jattan. Founded around…
Lakhan-Jo-Daro
Lakhan-Jo-Daro is one of the largest cities of the Indus Valley civilization, located near Sukkur in Sindh, Pakistan. Carbon-14 testing by the University of Groningen dated…
Mankiala
Mankiala Stupa is a Gandhara era stupa built in the nearby village of Tope Mankiala to memorialize the place where, according to legend, an earlier incarnation of Buddha…
Mehrgarh
Mehrgarh is a Neolithic archaeological site situated on the Kacchi Plain of Balochistan in Pakistan. It is located near the Bolan Pass, to the west of the Indus River and between…
Nindowari
Nindowari (also Nindo Damb) is a Chalcolithic archaeological site in Khuzdar District, Balochistan, Pakistan, situated on the right bank of the Kud River, a tributary of the…
Pir Shah Jurio
4500-3000 BC) Pir Shah Jurio is an Indus Valley civilization archaeological site located in Sindh, Pakistan, near Karachi at the mouth of the Hub River. Discovered by…
Pushkalavati
Pushkalavati was the capital of the ancient region of Gandhāra in modern-day northwestern Pakistan. Its ruins are located on the outskirts of the modern city of Charsadda in…
Rehman Dheri
Rehman Dheri is a Pre-Harappan archaeological site near Dera Ismail Khan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is one of the oldest urbanized centers discovered in South Asia,…
Seri Bahlol
Seri Bahlol, also Sahr-i Bahlol or Sahri Bahlol, is a city and archaeological site located near Takht-i-Bahi, in Mardan District, about 70 kilometer north-west of Peshawar, Khyber…
Sheri Khan Tarakai
Sheri Khan Tarakai is an ancient settlement site located in the Bannu District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. Excavations have shown that the settlement at Sheri Khan Tarakai was…
Siraj-ji-Takri
Siraj-ji-Takri or Seeraj-ji-Takri is a Buddhist archaeological site located in Sindh, Pakistan. The Buddhist city of Siraj-ji-Takri is located along the western limestone terraces…
Sirkap Remains
Sirkap is the name of an archaeological site on the bank opposite to the city of Taxila, Punjab, Pakistan. The city of Sirkap was built by the Greco-Bactrian king Demetrius after…
Sirsukh
Sirsukh is an ancient city that forms part of the ruins at Taxila, near the modern day city of Taxila, Punjab, Pakistan. The city of Sirsukh is said to have been founded during…
Sokhta Koh
Sokhta Koh (also known as Sotka Koh; lit. "burnt hill") is a Harappan site on the Makran coast, near the city of Pasni, in the Balochistan province of Pakistan. It was first…
Taxila
Taxila is a UNESCO World Heritage Site (1980) in Punjab, Pakistan, comprising ruins of three successive cities -- Bhir Mound, Sirkap, and Sirsukh -- spanning from the 5th century…
Tulamba
Tulamba is more than 2,500 years old. Archaeological digs have uncovered four distinct layers, belonging to the Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, Sikh civilisations. The coins of several…
Uch
Uch was an early stronghold during the Muslim conquest of the subcontinent. Uch was a regional metropolitan centre between the 12th and 17th centuries, and became refuge for…
Monastery in Pakistan (9)
Aziz Dheri
Aziz Dheri is an ancient Buddhist archaeological site featuring mounds located in Swabi District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The site, situated approximately 33 kilometers east…
Dharmarajika Stupa
The Dharmarajika Stupa, also called the Great Stupa of Taxila, is a Buddhist monument in Punjab, Pakistan. The site later expanded into a major monastic complex. It forms part of…
Gumbat Stupa
A 2nd-century CE Buddhist stupa in the Kandag Valley of Swat, Gandhara, first recorded by A. Stein in 1930. The main stupa has a 17-metre square plinth and the remains spread…
Jaulian
Jaulian is a ruined Buddhist monastery dating from the 2nd century CE, located in Taxila. Jaulian, along with the nearby monastery at Mohra Muradu, form part of the Ruins of…
Kalawan
Kalawan has a vihara monastery. An inscription, recording the enshrinement of relics as a gift to the Sarvastivadin School, was found in a chaitya hall mentioning the date of "the…
Nemogram Stupa
(2nd–3rd c. AD) Nemogram Stupa is a Buddhist temple complex on the right bank of the Swat River, 45 km west of Saidu Sharif and 22 km from Birkot in Pakistan's Swat Valley. The…
Ranigat
According to archeologists, Ranigat remained the center of Buddhist art and culture for centuries. 'Rani' is an Urdu word that means 'queen', while 'gat' is a Pashto word that…
Shaji-ki-Dheri
Shaji-ki-Dheri is the site of an ancient Kanishka stupa about 6 kilometers from Peshawar. French archaeologist Alfred Charles Auguste Foucher had visited Peshawar towards the end…
Takht-i-Bahi
Takht-i-Bahi, is an Indo-Parthian archaeological site of an ancient Buddhist monastery in Mardan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The site is considered among the most important…
Mound/tumulus in Pakistan (8)
Ali Murad Mound
The Ali Murad Mound is an archaeological site situated at Johi Tehsil, in Dadu District of Sindh, Pakistan. The site was explored as well as named by archaeologist N. G. Majumdar.…
Damb Sadat
Damb Sadat (Sadaat) is an archaeological mound in the Quetta Valley of Balochistan, Pakistan, located 12 km south of Quetta city. The oval-shaped site, 73 m in circumference and…
Jhukar-jo-Daro
The Jhukar-jo-Daro is the highest mud mound in Larkana, located at a distance of 6 miles (10 kilometers) from Larkana city towards west near to village Mithodero on the left of…
Lakhmir Mound
Lakhmir Mound, locally known as Lakhmir-Ji-Mari, is a Chalcolithic archaeological site in the Naig Valley of Sindh, Pakistan, about 45 km from Sehwan Sharif. The mound consists of…
Lohum Jo Daro
Lohum Jo Daro is an archaeological site in Dadu District, Sindh, Pakistan, dating to 4500-3000 BC. Located near Piaro Goth railway station on the Indus River floodplain, it…
Periano Ghundai
Periano Ghundai, meaning "Hill of Fairies," was an archaeological mound in Zhob District, Balochistan, Pakistan, located 3 km west of Zhob. Excavated by Sir Aurel Stein, the site…
Pirak
Pirak is an archaeological site belonging to the Indus Valley civilization located in Balochistan. It is 20 km south of Sibi east of the Nari River. The site of Pirak was first…
Sohr Damb
Sohr Damb, c. 3800–2300 BC, is an archaeological site near Nal in central Balochistan, Pakistan that begins before the Indus Valley Civilization featuring Togau, Kili Ghul…
Temple complex in Pakistan (7)
Amluk-Dara Stupa
A monumental Buddhist stupa in the Swat valley of Pakistan, part of the ancient Gandhara civilization. First documented by Aurel Stein in 1926, the stupa was built in the 3rd…
Bhamala Stupa
Bhamala Stupa is a ruined Buddhist stupa near Haripur, Pakistan, that dates to the 2nd century CE. It is located on the banks of the Haro River, near Khanpur Dam. Bhamala stupa is…
Butkara Stupa
The Butkara Stupa is an important Buddhist stupa near Mingora, in the area of Swat. The stupa was excavated by an Italian mission, led by archaeologist Domenico Faccenna from…
Kanishka Stupa
The Kanishka Stupa was a monumental Buddhist stupa built c. 127 CE by Kushan emperor Kanishka I at Purushapura (modern Peshawar, Pakistan), standing over 400 feet (c. 123 m) tall…
Kunala Stupa
Kunala Stupa is a Kushan-era Buddhist stupa and monastery complex located on a hill approximately 200 meters south of Sirkap, overlooking the ancient Indo-Greek city. Situated to…
Mohra Muradu
Mohra Muradu is the place of an ancient Buddhist stupa and monastery near the ruins of Taxila. The ancient monastery is located in a valley and has views of the surrounding…
Sphola Stupa
Sphola Stupa is a Buddhist monument located in the Khyber Pass, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa of Pakistan. The monument located about 25 kilometers from Jamrūd is on a high rocky ledge and…
Rock relief/carving in Pakistan (4)
Alam Bridge Inscriptions
The Alam Bridge inscriptions are ancient rock carvings located near the Alam Bridge in northern Pakistan. The inscriptions are written in both Kharoshti and Brahmi scripts, which…
Buddhist Rock Carving in Manglawar
The Buddhist rock carvings of Manglawar Valley in Swat, Pakistan, 9 km northeast of Mingora, include multiple reliefs and sculptures along a sacred landscape of monasteries that…
Keno Daas Rock Carvings
Keno Daas is a rock carving site located just outside Gilgit toward the Hunza Valley in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. The carvings are part of a vast collection of petroglyphs and…
Mansehra Rock Edicts
Mansehra Rock Edicts are fourteen edicts of the Mauryan emperor Ashoka, inscribed on rocks in Mansehra in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The edicts are cut into three boulders and date back…
Archaeological site in Pakistan (3)
Kahu-Jo-Darro
Kahu-Jo-Darro, also known as Mirpur Khas stupa, is an ancient Buddhist stupa found at the Mirpurkhas archaeological site in Sindh, Pakistan. The site is spread over 30 acres.…
Mulri Hills
The Mulri Hills are located in Gulshan Town, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. The Late Palaeolithic and Mesolithic sites found by Karachi University team on the Mulri Hills, in front of…
Noorpur Stupas
5th c. BC – 1st c. AD temple complex in Gilgit, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, featuring ancient stupas that represent early Buddhist religious architecture in the region.
Cave Structures in Pakistan (3)
Gondrani (Shehr-e-Roghan)
Gondrani, also known as Shehr-e-Roghan, is an ancient cave city in Lasbela District, Balochistan, Pakistan, located about 20 km north of Bela. The caves are carved into…
Kashmir Smast
The Kashmir Smast caves are natural limestone caves in the Babuzai Sakrah mountains, Katlang Valley, Mardan, northern Pakistan. Artificially expanded from the Kushan to the Shahi…
Sanghao Cave
Sanghao Cave is a Paleolithic site near Mardan in northern Pakistan, excavated by Ahmad Hasan Dani. It was the first stratified Upper Paleolithic site discovered in Pakistan,…
Fortress/citadel in Pakistan (3)
Multan Fort
The Multan Fort was a historic fort in the city of Multan, Punjab, Pakistan. It was built on a hillock separated from the city by the Ravi River. The fort was destroyed in 1849 by…
Sialkot Fort
An ancient fort in ruins in the Sialkot district of Pakistan, standing on the site of Sagala, capital of the Indo-Greek Kingdom under King Menander I in the 2nd century BC.…
Sutkagan Dor
Sutkagan Dor is the westernmost known archaeological site of the Indus Valley civilisation. It is located about 480 km west of Karachi on the Makran coast near Gwadar, close to…
Fort in Pakistan (2)
Salamgarh
Salamgarh, officially Islamgarh, is an old city and now a neighbourhood in Jalalpur Jattan, in Punjab, Pakistan. It is situated to the south of the old city of Jalalpur Jattan.…
Sirnikot
Sirnikot is a Buddhist archaeological site situated along the left bank of the Indus River in Sindh. Sirnikot is located in deh Sadhoja, near New Jatoi town in Taluka Moro,…
Bath in Pakistan (1)
Inscription in Pakistan (1)
Other sites in Pakistan (11)
Baho Dheri
3rd–5th century AD Buddhist temple complex in Swabi District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Excavations have yielded over 400 antiquities. The site is identified as the largest…
Jandial
Jandial near the city of Taxila in Pakistan is the site of an ancient temple well known for its Ionic columns. The temple is located 630 meters north of the northern gate of…
Lower Swat Valley
Barikot is identified as ancient Bazira and has been excavated by an Italian mission since 1984. The region preserves remains of the Gandhara grave culture and buildings of the…
Manikyala Stupa
The Manikyala Stupa or Mankiala Stupa is a Buddhist stupa near the village of Tope Mankiala, in the Pothohar region of Pakistan's Punjab province. The stupa was built to…
Mian Khan
190 BC: Mian Khan is an ancient village in Katlang Tehsil, Mardan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Following an archaeological excavation in 2014, it was identified as the…
Mughal Minar
Mughal Minar is an archaeological site in Gilgit, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. The site originally functioned as a Stupa, a hemispherical structure used for Buddhist worship and…
Nausharo
Nausharo is an archaeological site dating back to the Harappan period, located in Balochistan, Pakistan. The excavations were carried out between 1985 and 1996 by a French team of…
Shatial
As a historical crossroads, many traders, Buddhist missionaries, Sogdian merchants, and pilgrims passed through Shatial leaving behind graffiti and inscriptions on the rocks. More…
Sikri Stupa
The Sikri stupa is a work of Buddhist art dated to 3rd-4th century from the Kushan period in Gandahara, consisting of 13 narrative panels with events from the life of Buddha.…
Sudheran-Jo-Thul
Sudheran-Jo-Thul is a Buddhist stupa which is situated near Tando Muhammad Khan city and Badin city in Tando Muhammad Khan District, Sindh. It is located at the mound which shows…
Thul Hairo Khan
The Thul Hairo Khan is a Buddhist stupa, built possibly between the 5th and 7th centuries CE near the modern-day town of Johi, in Sindh, Pakistan. It was constructed using cheroli…
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