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gallery of this museum represents a continuous profile of the Peshawar Valley in the form of excavation material recovered from the site of Gorkhuttree. This was discovered by an excavation from 2002 to 2011 led by the Directorate of Archaeology and Museums Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The second gallery is of ethnological culture of Peshawar, where household objects, traditional dresses, armaments, ornaments, musical instruments, arts, and craft objects are exhibited.
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and other areas. It was originally consisting of two monumental entrance (gateways), a Jamia Masjid and Hamam and a sequential of small cells (rooms) on four sides. The area is now occupied by modern buildings and a Hindu temple only the gateways and some small cells are present. The archaeological
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The excavations took place at the site of Gorkhatri from 1994 to 1995 and from that time on a series of excavations took place in the subsequent years. The complex was established as caravanserai for the merchandiser who came to Peshawar from
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Gorkhatri is the highest place in Peshawar and it is located at the heart of walled city of old Peshawar. The site having a huge deposit of the historical periods began from the
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The museum consists of three galleries: archaeological, ethnological, and antiquities. The latter is the most recent addition, exhibiting the antiquities of the
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which provide detailed information about archaeological and ethnological profile of Peshawar.
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or even earlier. The current structure of the Gorkhatri complex was established by
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Directorate of Archaeology & Museums KP Pakistan
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Gorkhatri
Peshawar
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Pakistan
Coordinates
34°00′28″N 71°34′46″E / 34.0078°N 71.5795°E / 34.0078; 71.5795
Archaeology museum
Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
kparchaeology.gkp.pk
archaeology museum
Gorkhatri
Peshawar
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Pakistan
Akram Khan Durrani
Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
British Raj
Indo-Greeks
Jahanara Begum
Mughal emperor
Shah Jahan
Central Asia
Afghanistan
Peshawar Museum
List of museums in Pakistan




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