Heritage record
Chaukhandi Tombs
SindhTombUNESCO Tentative ListProtected
These are pyramidal type tomb of Baloch warriors and their families, who had settled here in 17th and 18th centuries. The graves are decorated with stone slabs chiseled out in human, figural and other conventional designs. The most conspicuous features of the graves are the devices signifying the gentle and the sterner sex. Depicted on male internments is the horseman with ornaments like shield, sword, arrow and bow. Some graves are crowned with boss and turban. The female graves are symbolized with ornaments like the necklace, bracelet, anklet, ringlet, etc.
Photographs: Department of Archaeology & Museums national inventory record, displayed from the official source (doam.gov.pk). Not PWHI photography.
- Record ID
- 5815
- Province / territory
- Sindh
- District
- Karachi
- Typology
- Monument
- Subtype
- Tomb
- Period
- Historic
- Legal status
- Protected by The Antiquity Act 1975 (As amended in 1992) (instrument: Protected by The Antiquity Act 1975 (As amended in 1992))
- Tentative List
- Chaukhandi Tombs, Karachi
- Coordinates
- 24.86391, 67.27137 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Jansen, Michael, Yasmeen Lari. (2015). Inventory of Cultural Property in the Province of Sindh, Pakistan, 2015. Government of Sindh, Vol 2.
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