Showing posts with label Archeology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Archeology. Show all posts

Monday, July 05, 2010

ABBOTT Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology Abbottabad

Abbott Museum of Archeology & Ethnology, Abbottabad 
The Abbott Museum was completed and established by the efforts of worthy Vice Chancellor Hazara University Mansehra, Prof. Dr. Ihsan Ali in a short span of time and was then inaugurated by the Federal Minister, Nisar Muhammad Khan on February 22, 2008.
Museum displays the following:
  • Archaeological profile of NWFP in general while district Abbottabad and Haripur in particular due to the recent archaeological investigations done by the staff of the Museum. We have documented 304 sites in Abbottabad which proved that the history of the areas goes back to 6th century BC while in Haripur, 292 sites were recorded and the history goes beyond the Buddhist period.
  • The Second aspect representing the ethnology of the area, that how they live now and what they are using inside their houses, their traditions, their dresses etc.
  • Representing Buddha life story in water colour painting, which is in process.
  • The fourth aspect of the Museum is to highlight those political personalities who contributed to the establishment of Abbottabad town and we represented them in a unique artwork “Burning Art”.
  • While the fifth aspect of the Museum is to highlight the Gandhara Grave Culture. For this purpose, we display the Gandhara Grave Culture Gankirini-o-Take Excavations 2008 (Chitral) material.
  • To highlight the British Colonial Buildings, we have displayed photographs of these buildings for that purpose.
    During the archaeological survey, the surface collections from different sites belonging to Buddhists, Hindushahi and Islamic period have been displayed in the Museum. 

Friday, April 10, 2009

What makes Hazara University unique?


What makes Hazara University unique? Its Hazara University!

Pakistan has been one of those countries, which are very limited in research and the development activities. The mode of education is set to some very conventional systems, like the schooling system and then the higher education later on.

What if its said that Hazara University is established like other many universities in the recent years? Answer is absolutely the results this particular university has shown in just 8 years.
The enrollment of students has jumped from 450 to more then 6000 students. The faculty comprises mostly of the post graduates from the best universities of the world, while on the other hand the university has got more then 23 different departments offering at least 65 degrees, including bachelor, masters, & Ph. D.
On the other hand the population of the university has hiked up to more then 15000 people.
The university has three campuses, which makes her the unique in region.
The university is located, where the area homes Jabba Research station, the only research station for the sheep & goats in Northern South Asian region. The tea research programs are the only provision of research for tea in region, more over the archeological importance of area is reknown. The tourism, culture & heritage departments are the pioneer departments for any university in Pakistan, homed here.
Hazara University, Education, Pakistan