Miri Qalat is the most important archaeological site of the Kech Valley in Kech-Makran located south-west of Pakistani Balochistan. Excavations carried out between 1990 and 1996 by the French Archaeological Mission in Makran led by Roland Besenval in cooperation with the Department of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Pakistan, established the first chrono-cultural sequence of the region between the mid-late 5th millennium BCE and the 19th century CE and...
Bodhgaya in eastern India is the site of the Mahabodhi temple and it has long been recognised as the place where the Buddha sat in meditation under the Bodhi tree and attained enlightenment. Bodhgaya is located 110 km south of Patna, the state capital of Bihar, in the middle section of the Gangetic Plain on the western bank of River Phalgu.
Alexander Cunningham, a British Army engineer and Director General of the...
