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On the other hand, it was within academic archaeology that women first broke the glass ceiling at a number of British universities. Dorothy Garrod was the first woman to hold a chair (in any subject) at either the University of Cambridge or the University of Oxford, having been appointed Disney Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge in 1939. [27]
Yasmeen Lari was born in 1941 in the town of Dera Ghazi Khan, [1] and spent her early years in and around Lahore in a renowned clan of Iraqi Biradari.Her father Zafarul Ahsan, an ICS officer, was working on major development projects in Lahore and other cities, through which Lari was exposed to architecture.
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Dawn News: 25 May 2007 Karachi [10] Dunya News: 1 December 2008 Lahore [11] Express News: 1 January 2008 Karachi [12] Geo News: May 2002 [13] GNN: 14 August 2018 [14] Hum News: 11 May 2018 Islamabad [15] Indus News: English: November 2018 Lahore [16] KTN News: Sindhi, Urdu: October 2007 Karachi: Khyber News: Pashto, Urdu: August 2007 Islamabad ...
Ikram was born in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1965. She developed an interest in archaeology at the age of eight upon receiving copies of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Tanglewood Tales and Ancient Egypt by Time Life Books Editors. [1] A visit to Egypt when she was nine heightened her interest in Egyptology. [2] [3]
Amidst much speculation, the team opened it to find a message from another archaeologist digging at the site—200 years ago. The archaeologist was the first to explore the ancient location, and ...
Khan received numerous honors, including the Tamga-i-Pakistan (1961), [10] Sitara-i-Imtiaz (1965), France's highest honor, and Italy's high honor (1982). He was awarded the 1996 Dani Gold Medal by the Pakistan Society of Archaeology, Archives and Museums on July 31, 1997. The library of the Women's University, Lahore, is named after him. [2]
Pakistan is home to many archaeological sites dating from Lower Paleolithic period to Mughal empire. The earliest known archaeological findings belong to the Soanian culture from the Soan Valley, near modern-day Islamabad. Soan Valley culture is considered as the best known Palaeolithic culture of Central Asia. [1]