Archaeologists in northwest Pakistan’s Swat Valley have unearthed a roughly 2,000-year-old Buddhist temple that could be one of the oldest in the country, reports the Hindustan Times.

MINGORA, Pakistan, Oct. 24 --Archaeologists and cultural activists say Buddhist rock carvings in the Swat district of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province are fading fast and urgently need a ...

Pakistan is uncovering a remarkable past: a once-thriving Buddhist civilization. Excavations reveal ancient universities and stupas, like Jaulian with its university ruins and Bhamala with the ...

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He also said that a book on Raja Tridev Rao: Buddhism in Pakistan was published in 1955. This was why, he noted, from 1950 to 1969, Buddhism was part and parcel of academic discourse.

A Pakistani Buddhist historian writes in the book Buddhism in Pakistan, “The advent of Buddhism was of particular importance for the North-West regions of Pakistan.

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Archaeologists in Pakistan have unearthed an extremely rare hoard of copper coins, thought to be more than 2,000 years old, from the ruins of a Buddhist shrine built at the even more ancient site ...