05/06/2022
Taxila Museum | Gandharan art in Pakistan Taxila Museum is located at Taxila, Punjab, Pakistan. The museum is home to a significant and comprehensive collection of Gandharan art, from the 1st to the 7th centuries of the Common Era. Most objects in the collection were excavated from the ruins of ancient Taxila. Construction of Taxila museum started in 1918, Construction was concluded in 1928 and the museum was opened for public by Sir Muhammad Habibullah, Education Minister. The government of Pakistan constructed the northern gallery in 1998. There are about 4000 objects displayed, including stone, stucco, terracotta, silver, gold, iron and semiprecious stones. Mainly the display consists of objects from the period 600 B.C to 500 AD. Buddhist, Hindu and Jain religion are well represented through these objects discovered from three ancient cities and more than two dozen Buddhist stupas and monasteries and Greek temples in the region. Taxila Museum has one of the most significant and comprehensive collections of stone Buddhist sculpture from the first to the seventh centuries in Pakistan (known as Gandharan art. The core of the collection comes from excavated sites in the Taxila Valley, particularly the excavations of Sir John Marshall. Other objects come from excavated sites elsewhere in Gandhara, from donations such as the Ram Das Collection, or from material confiscated by the police and custom authorities. The whole collection contains more than 1400 objects, and 409 have been published The Taxila Museum is a site museum and is the repository for the majority of the numismatic material found during archaeological work in Taxila. Digging began in 1917 under John Marshall, then director of the Archaeological Survey of India, and continued until 1934. Since those excavations, work has continued to the present day. The museum contains a large collection of coins from the period of the Indo-Greeks to the late Kushans. Some of these are published in Marshall's original excavation reports, and an ongoing project exists to publish the full collection. Click here to subscribe my channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChhUr1CfTVhJWFdAwzOXOkQ?sub_confirmation=1 Timestamps: 00:00 Intro about the Taxila Museum and Gandhara Art 00:20 History of Taxila Museum and Objects displayed 04:03 Showing of Objects found in different time digging from different 3 cities found in Taxila If you enjoy my videos, the biggest way you can support my channel is by subscribing Other Playlists: Turkey visit Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldv3FeFZTFE&list=PLWHLDELM2veSOqYughkCthSbQMcIF3NsR Dubai visits Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79IvA4RKCyk&list=PLWHLDELM2veToE3oEPGeIj86SrwyhY_h5 Azerbaijan visit Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU4EnRB8MmI&list=PLWHLDELM2veSsZofmPRKjN7bOnJaome0T Sri Lanka visit Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjFPrwaUZac&list=PLWHLDELM2veQoZBNNHhhBW-ah1r1DZBeR Islamabad, Pakistan Special Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frwESef13o4&list=PLWHLDELM2veT0Y1d9bJWMxnv08TdKLXyx Northern Area Pakistan Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fB8PQKqMKAM&list=PLWHLDELM2veQ9FxI7jKInjerpdf1HIaRU Lahore Special Visit Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdyIWL2rxCU&list=PLWHLDELM2veR0USvZN_ZYgxNKVI1FbPli Other Social Media Links: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/discoverspirit/?ref=pages_you_manage Music in this video Learn more Song Mortals Artist Warriyo, Laura Brehm Licensed to YouTube by AEI (on behalf of NCS); Featherstone Music (publishing), LatinAutor - Warner Chappell, LatinAutor, LatinAutorPerf, UNIAO BRASILEIRA DE EDITORAS DE MUSICA - UBEM, and 7 Music Rights Societies
