Heritage record
Ranigat
Khyber PakhtunkhwaStupa & MonasteryUNESCO Tentative ListProtected
A Buddhist site of Ranigat is spread over an area of 4 square kilometers, dated to Buddhist period. Ranigat remained the center of Buddhist art and culture for centuries. The site is located on top of a hill, accessible by climbing the stairs constructed by the Japanese Archaeological Mission in Pakistan. The main attractions include Stupas, a big rock erected by the ancient people at some distance that they probably used to worship. Under excavation by a joint UNESCO-Japanese team since the 1980s, the site has issues related to vandalism. The site is now protected and is surrounded by a barbed-wire fence. This site is also added to the Tentative List of the World Heritage Centre on January 30, 2004 in the Cultural category.
Photographs: Department of Archaeology & Museums national inventory record, displayed from the official source (doam.gov.pk). Not PWHI photography.
- Record ID
- 2370
- Province / territory
- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- District
- Buner
- Typology
- Archaeological Site
- Subtype
- Stupa & Monastery
- Period
- Historic
- Legal status
- Protected by The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Antiquities Act, 2016 (instrument: Protected by The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Antiquities Act, 2016)
- Tentative List
- Archaeological Site of Ranigat
- Coordinates
- 34.35000, 72.05000 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Ali, Ihsan. (2003). Early Settlements, Irrigation & Trade Routes in Peshawar Plain, Pakistan. Frontier Archaeology, Vol I.
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