German Archeologist Suggests Exploring Ancient Civilization In Pakistani Salt Range

Pakistan Link ^ | 11-20-2003

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German Archeologist suggests exploring ancient civilization in Pakistani Salt Range

CHAKWAL (NNI): German Archeologist Madam Karron Wednesday said that salt range area is the heaven of archeology and fascinating for the western tourists.

The people of this area are the custodian of old human civilization and this area has a very strong cultural and historical back ground, she remarked while visiting Ban Amir Khatoon the fossils site area where more than 30 millions old fossils were discovered. The wife of the ambassador of Hungry based at Islamabad Mrs. Vera Sozlunki was also

accompanying her.

Local Geologist Malik Muhammad Riaz briefed about the fossils and told that he made this discovery in 1994 that raised the importance of this area.

The Pakistani Geologist continued as saying, “famous Pakistani archeologist Dr. Ahmad Hassan Dani visited this area many times and he claimed that this is the biggest concentration of fossils throughout the world.”

The local administration examined and tested these fossils from international laboratory and it was confirmed that these fossils are more than 30 million-year old. Secretary General Press Club Chakwal Khawaja Babar Salim told that all the evidences for the first man of human civilization was found in the salt range area and if research work should be done we are confident that the first human man must had been appeared in the salt range area of Pakistan.

Madam Karron shown great interest in these fossils and she was of the view that some

international archeological associations should invest their money and in return some startling discoveries of old human civilizations and dinosaurs could be unearthed from the area.

She also visited Dhoke Tahlian Dam which was constructed in the heart of the salt range area. Madam Karron claimed that she had visited many places of the world but salt range is very fascinating.

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Ah ha, 'Out Of Pakistan' challenges 'Out Of Africa'?

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This may be the last time we ever hear about this.

[ElkGroveDan]

all the evidences for the first man of human civilization was found in the salt range

All your evidences belong to us.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

It's the oldest known civilization that hasn't yet been studied.

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Amb Temples A & B In The Pakistan Salt Range

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New Temples Discovered In Salt Range (Temples C & E)

[RightWhale]

All is emptiness, eh?

[<1/1,000,000th%]

A giant bat house?? ;)

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Views Of Salt Range Temples (Lots of pictures)

[bert]

In my experience, words of a Pakistanian should be taken with a grain of salt.

[farmfriend]

Gods, Graves, Glyphs
List for articles regarding early civilizations , life of all forms, - dinosaurs - etc.

Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this ping list.

[swarthyguy]

Except most serious archeological digs, ie, at Mohanjodaro and Harrappa have come to a halt since Partition.

Pre Islamic civilisation does not fit into the islami worldview and hence is ignored.

[RightWhale]

Yes, that's right. Most undependable.

[rightofrush]

My thoughts as well.

[rightofrush]

...all the evidences for the first man of human civilization was found in the salt range area...

Which are...?

[swarthyguy]

Yes, even in Pakistan, destruction of various sites and temples has been ongoing. The Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan were perhaps the most egregious of these destructions.

Who knows what's been lost in the northern reaches of Pakistan.

[swarthyguy]

But the critical difference in Islam, as Bernard Lewis says, is that the whole idea of any preIslamic value and worth is negated. Everything relevant begins after the establishment of Islam by Mohammad.

He make a critical distinction that this is not some extremist thinking, but widely accepted conventional thinking, particularly in the Arab world.

Witness the neglect of and ignorance about the Pyramids, the lost city of Petra etc; only rectified after the academics of the Western imperial powers started poking around the region after Napoleon took Egypt and then the British.

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Petra