Wari-Bateshwar, Narsingdi,Bangladesh
Wari-Bateshwar is the newly established Archaeological site
of Bangladesh.
It is situated in Wari and Bateshwar villages, Belabo Upazila, Nasingdi
district. The Pathan family mainly plays a significant rule to discover and
increases the awareness about the site among the mass people. Hanif Pathan, a
local school teacher discovers the site in 1933. Then he and his son Habibullah
Pathan have build a museum where they
stored the collection of knobbed ware, rouletted ware, flakes, stones, various
type of glasses and coins found from the site. They wrote several books and
journals about the importance of this very important Archaeological site. The
site gives the details information about the establishing the cultural,
political and economy of the whole south Asia.
The Department of Archaeology in Jahangirnagar
University provides us
the details information about the importance of the site. They has been investigating the site
since 1989 and started digging the site in 2000. However, more research needed
to know various stuffs related to this Archaeological site. Now the question
how can you explore the site? It is quite easy to visit Wari-Bateshwar from the
capital Dhaka. There are a lot of bus services
available from Mohakhali or Saydabad bus stand by which you can reach marjal
bus station, Narsingdi and it will take not more than 2.30-3.00 hours. Then you
will find some autos for going Belabo or directly to Wari-Bateshwar. The total
costing of the whole tour will be 500-1000 taka only.
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