Aerial view of ruins of Takht-i-Bahi, 1st-century CE Buddhist monastery complex in what was ancient Indian region of Gandhara, in present-day northern Pakistani province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (2019)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/46767023

It is representative of Buddhist monastic architecture from its era and the ruins were listed as a World Heritage Site in 1980, with UNESCO describing it as having been “exceptionally well-preserved”.

Photographer: Muzamil Hassain Toori

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