Heritage record
Chhorbat hasan abad rock carvings
Gilgit-BaltistanRock ArtProtected
Hassan Abad Village is located along the road to Siksa, though Chhorbat valley caravan travelled to Nubra valley and Ladakh before independence in 1948. In ancient time travelers, pilgrims and traders used this route to travel to Chinese Turkistan through Karakoram Pass. Here we found one stone with 21 stupas and 20 ibexes. The elevation is 2642 m. All the stupa carvings are carved in Tibetan style.
- Record ID
- 7848
- Province / territory
- Gilgit-Baltistan
- District
- Ghanche
- Typology
- Archaeological Site
- Subtype
- Rock Art
- Period
- Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 34.99004, 76.53304 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Hauptmann, H.. (Miscellaneous). Pak-German Archaeological Mission to the Northern Areas of the Heidelberg Academy for the Humanities and Sciences. Miscellaneous.
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