Chinese visit: QAU, Peking University to sign MoU

ISLAMABAD:

A Chinese delegation from Peking University, Beijing, comprising 22 professors of Archaeology, Museology — the study of Museums — and the School of Foreign Languages visited Quaid-e-Azam University’s Taxila Institute of Asian Civilisations (TIAC) on Sunday.

The delegation, headed by Dr Tang Mengsheng, announced that a Memorandum of Understanding would be signed between TIAC and Peking University’s archaeology and foreign languages schools in the near future. The delegation visited TIAC’s Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, library and conservation laboratory.

TIAC scholars organised a seminar to brief the delegation on Pakistan’s cultural heritage. TIAC Director Dr Ashraf Khan informed the Chinese professors about the institute’s field research on rock carvings found in G-B and its recent discovery of a third century AD Buddhist monastery in the Taxila valley.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 24^th, 2013.