Heritage: Breathing life into history: the new Swat Museum Italian Institute for Far and Middle East (IsMEO) FERYAL ALI GAUHAR

Fifty years ago, on November 10, 1963, a team of dedicated scholars and government officials from Pakistan and Italy celebrated the opening of the Swat Museum at Saidu Sharif. A joint endeavor of the mission of the then Italian Institute for Far and Middle East (IsMEO) and the Department of Archaeology and Museums (DOAM), Government of Pakistan, the museum emerged as a result of the sensibilities of the scholars who had explored the rich cultural heritage of the area as well as the sensitivity

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