Gandhara

Heritage

Taxila is four cities and a Buddhist landscape: how to read the UNESCO site

Taxila is not one ruin beside one museum. The UNESCO property connects several settlements and religious sites that record centuries of urban change on routes linking South and Central Asia.

Bilal Ahmed · 25 Oct 2026

Heritage

Takht-i-Bahi: why Pakistan's best-preserved Buddhist monastery sits on a hill

Takht-i-Bahi preserves an unusually complete Gandharan Buddhist monastic complex, organised across hill terraces with stupa courts, cells and assembly spaces.

Bilal Ahmed · 3 Oct 2026