Five Thousand Years of Pakistan - An Archaeological Outline

It includes one of the great civilizations of Asia—the Indus Civilization of the third and second millennia B. C. ; it shares with the borderland of Afghanistan the primary glory of that remarkable and individual Buddhist art which flowered there in and after the second century A. D. ; the lively spontaneity of East Bengal endowed it in the eighth and ninth centuries A. D. with a school of vivid t [...] The Moguls in West Pakistan. 71 Rohtits Fort. 74 Old Lahore. 75 Lahore Fort. 79 The Tomb of Sheikh Musa Ahangar 83 The Mosque of Mariam Zamani. 83 The Tomb of Anarkali. 84 The Tomb of Jehangir. 84 The Mosque and Baradari of Wazir Man. 85 The Mosque of Dal Anga. 86 The Shalimar Garden. 87 The Tomb of Asaf Khan. 88 The Tomb of Ntir Jah [...] The natural boundaries are the Arabian Sea in the south-west the Baluchistan and Himalayan mountains in the west and north and the thar or desert in the south-east. [...] 1 12INTRODUCTORY of vegetation has exposed the surface of the land to the weather and has induced the widespread soil-erosion which is one of the economic problems of the present day. [...] it would have been possible to travel from remote Sutkagen-dor near the shores of the Arabian Sea over 300 miles west of Karachi to the village of Rapar at the foot of the Simla hills—a distance of 1 000 miles—and to see on all sides men living in various degrees the same mode of life making the same kind of pots and tools and ornaments and possibly administered by the same government.