Relics found in Dinajpur date back to 10th century
Archaeologists of Jahangirnagar University have postulated that the recently excavated remains and relics of three Buddhist monasteries at Nawabganj in Dinajpur district are of 10 th-11th centuries AD.
Director of the excavation team Ecological Archaeology Group Asst Prof Swadhin Sen of JU believes that the monasteries belong to the Pala dynasty when the region -- Rajshahi, Bogra, Pabna and Dinajpur (both in India and Bangladesh) -- was known as Varendra.
He said assemblages of pottery found during the excavations have been compared to the stratigraphically indexed pottery from Mahasthan and Maldah in West Bengal. The well and brick structures also indicate that these Buddhist ruins belong tentatively to the 10th -11th century AD.
He said this is the first time in Bangladesh that three monasteries within the proximity of six square miles have been excavated in the northern part of the country.
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Director of the excavation team Ecological Archaeology Group Asst Prof Swadhin Sen of JU believes that the monasteries belong to the Pala dynasty when the region -- Rajshahi, Bogra, Pabna and Dinajpur (both in India and Bangladesh) -- was known as Varendra.
He said assemblages of pottery found during the excavations have been compared to the stratigraphically indexed pottery from Mahasthan and Maldah in West Bengal. The well and brick structures also indicate that these Buddhist ruins belong tentatively to the 10th -11th century AD.
He said this is the first time in Bangladesh that three monasteries within the proximity of six square miles have been excavated in the northern part of the country.