Prof. Luca M. Olivieri Lecture
ZoomTemples of Swat. The Shahi archaeological landscape. The talk will report on the recent research at Barikot, Swat, Pakistan, where excavations continued also in 2020. The ancient urban site, known in Greek and Latin sources as Bazira/Beira, between 700 and 1000 CE, became a major Śāhi centre with palatial and cultic structures, known as Vajira…