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The book brings forth and promotes the Taxila Museum which holds extremely important and valuable objects and specimen representing the regional culture extensively.
The book, under prologue, gives a very concise history of the category of fort, although it is a subject worth tackling in a much wider context and over full volumes. The individual articles then examine the major historical and regional traditions of fort architecture, spanning over some five thousand years and encompassing almost all parts of Pakistan. The forts, of fortresses, having their place in the following treatise are found today in their physical form, ...
The tradition of gardens must have been passed on to us from ancient civilizations but realistically speaking, as far as Lahore is concerned, there is hardly any mention of gardens in history prior to the Mughal era... The time span before the Ghaznavi period has, if any, just hypothetical references. Starting from Mahmud of Ghazni’s reign, there were only around six gardens pertaining to different periods in the annals of the city. The first among them was the ...