A museum is being built to preserve the ruins of a Buddhist temple discovered at Kamrab Dhupirtek in Narsingdi’s Wari-Bateshwar area.
This is the first private initiative to preserve the artefacts unearthed at the archaeological site in Wari-Bateshwar.
Most of the artefacts found at the site since excavation began there back in 2000 have been buried as no permanent measure was taken to preserve those.
The museum’s construction was officially inaugurated on the playground of Dhupirtek Government Primary School in Shibpur upazila yesterday noon.
Dr Gauranga Chandra Mahanta, director of a higher education quality development project at the University Grants Commission, was the chief guest at the inauguration while Deputy Director of the Department of Archaeology Afroza Khan Mita, Chairman of Jahangirnagar University’s Department of Archaeology Dr Mokammel Hossain Bhuiyan, Chairman of the upazila Ariful Islam Mridha were present among others.
The country’s oldest archaeological artefacts were discovered at the site of Wari-Bateshwar, 35km northeast of Narsingdi Sadar.
Since excavation began in 2000, a number of artefacts, including a 2,500-year-old brick road, a fort, an axe dating back to the period of the Aryans and an iron hammer, were discovered at the site.
