HEIDELBERGER AKADEMIE DER WISSENSCHAFTEN Felsbilder und Inschriften am Karakorum Highway Rock Carvings and Inscriptions along the Karakorum Highway Subject Index Rock Carvings and Inscriptions along the Karakorum Highway - a brief introduction.... Publications Selected Bibliography Indus Valley Rock Art Gallery Some pictures from the KKH and the upper Indus Valley The Research Page RockArtNet ...

Temples Along the Indus Michael W. Meister High above the mighty Indus, on hills commonly called the Salt Range, stand important remains of forts with citadels and temples (Fig. 1). Built from the 6th to the 11th centuries AD, these structures lie in what was ancient India's far northwest (Fig. 3), now in the Panjab and North West Frontier provinces of Pakistan. Largely ignored by scholars in ...

Light shining from a Dark Age When Rome dominated much of the western world and the Han dynasty ruled China, another empire straddled the Silk Road in modern-day Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Kushan civilisation was centred, until its collapse in the fifth century AD, on fortress cities like the spectacular Bala Hisar at Charsadda on the fertile flood-plains of Peshawar. Excavations by Dr Robin ...

Plunder in the valley of the Buddhas By Justin Colledge-Wiggins in Peshawar It starts with a rumour: someone has uncovered a small statue. It is enough to mobilise small armies of villagers equipped with shovels and assault rifles for some nocturnal antiquity raiding. In Peshawar, Pakistan's notorious frontier capital, the trade in smuggled artefacts is now a booming industry, growing with ...