Pakistan’s City of Alexander Having worth to be a Global Tourist Hotspot

Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province is looking forward to an increase in tourism as the latest archaeological works have unearthed new systems inside the historic city of Bazira that centuries in the past turned into conquered through Alexander the Wonderful. Placed in Barikot, within the middle of the Swat valley, Bazira has been excavated by way of the Italian Archaeological project in Pakistan because the 1970s.

According to experts recent month excavations gave them many leads to understanding the city’s basic infrastructure like walls, bastions, and stairs of Ghwandai hill fort. 

“The most important and recent discovery on the hill concerns three points, including the existence of a seventh-11th century Shahi-era fortress that defended a water reservoir for the temple and an earlier Kushan acropolis of which important monumental traces remain,” said Dr. Luca M. Olivieri, who leads the Italian mission.

The fort has a big water tank where bastions were built to protect it and the Vishnu Temple, a Hindu place of worship dedicated to Lord Vishnu, is also situated there. “Today, about a tenth of the ancient city has been explored including the Vishnuite temple on the acropolis, the Shahi fortress conquered by the Ghaznavids in the 11th century,” Olivieri said.

Niaz Ali Shah, regional director at the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Archaeology and museums directorate in Swat which excavates the site with the Italian archaeologists, said that “stairs, drainage system, remains of walls and fortress and remains of a temple have been fully discovered.”