SWAT: The archaeologists and cultural activists have said that the new explorations on the top of the ancient city of Bazira can attract tourists from around the world and boost cultural tourism. They said that Italian archaeological mission in collaboration with department of archaeology unearthed bastions, walls and stairs of the fort of the Ghwandai hill in Barikot.Dr Luca Maria Olivieri, the head of the mission who led the excavation campaign, said that the archaeologists discovered some of

It is something that shows that even in antiquity we have a kind of globalisation where people had exchange of certain techniques and ideas of culture and religions which is astonishing.... We only have one other example of apsidal temple in a city at Sirkap, Taxila.... “ However, the apsidal temple of Bazira is so far the earliest example of this architecture in Pakistan, ” said Prof Luca.He said that the new discovery was revolutionary because it was proving the presence of Buddhists since t