Dr. M. Nasim Khan, Department of Archaeology,University of Peshawar, Pakistan

Co-Convenor: Ancient and Medieval Gandhāra Research Group (London)
Coordinator: HEC-British Council Cooperative Link in Archaeology    
Editor: Gandharan Studies       
Fellow: Fellow Member of the Royal Asiatic Society
Member: Member of the Steering Committee for Archaeology, Government of NWFP
Visiting Scholar Cambridge University

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Ph.D. 1995       (With distinction) (Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III - FRANCE)
Thor Nord, Helor Das Ouest, Helor Das Est. Publication de Trois Sites Archéologiques de la Haute Vallee de l'Indus.
M.Phil 1991    (Department of Archaeology, University of Peshawar - Pakistan).
                      The Kharoshthi Script, its Origin and  Development.
M.Phil 1990    (Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III - FRANCE)
                      Les Inscriptions Kharoshthi de Taxila.
Licence         1989 (Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III - FRANCE)
(B.A)              Étude de l'Histoire Indienne et de Langues Sanskrite,
M.A. 1984       (First Class with distinction)
                      (Department of Archaeology, University of Peshawar – PAKISTAN).
B.A. 1979       (University of Peshawar - PAKISTAN).
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2000-till date     Assistant Professor
                        Department of Archaeology, University of Peshawar - Pakistan
1997-2000         Lecturer
                        Department of Archaeology, University of Peshawar - Pakistan
1995/1996         Scientific Collaborator
                        Heidelberg Akademie der Wissenschaften, Forschungsstelle
                        "Felsbilder und Inschriften am Karakorum Highway", HEIDELBERG -
                        GERMANY.

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DAAD Fellow 1999 (Germany)

Charles Wallace Fellow 2000/2001(UK)
Hirayama Fellow 2001(UK)
Hirayama Fellow 2002 (UK)
Royal Asiatic Society Visiting Fellow 2002 (UK)
Royal Asiatic Society Visiting Fellow 2003 (UK)
Visiting Scholar 2007, Cambridge University (UK)

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- Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society – London

- First Visiting Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, London. Awarded twice

-First Recipient of the Charles Wallace Pakistan Trust, tenable at the Institute of Archaeology University College London

-Ph.D. with distinction; Sorbonne University, Paris -FRANCE.

-First M.Phil. Graduate of the Department of Archaeology, University of Peshawar, PAKISTAN.

-First Pakistani graduate with double M.Phil. and a Ph.D in the field of Archaeology. The second one was awarded by the Sorbonne University, Paris - FRANCE.

-M.A. Archaeology (Gold Medal), University of Peshawar, PAKISTAN.

- Pakistan Higher Education Commission Approved Ph.D Supervisor.

2000/2001
Teaching to the postgraduate students  (second term) at the     Institute of Archaeology, University College London, London University, UK

2001
Lectures/seminars at the British Museum London, UK

2001
Seminars at Freie University Berlin – Germany

2002
Lecture/Seminar at the British Museum, London, UK

2002
Seminar at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK

2002
Seminar at the Freie University  Berlin – Germany

2003
Seminar at the British Museum, London, UK

2006
ONS Seminar at the British Museum, London –UK (16th July, 2006)

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 1997:
Pak-Japan Colloquium on Gandhāra “Significance of Gandhāra in Human    History” (5-8 September). Organized by the Taxila Institute of Central Asian Civilizations, Qauid-i-Azam University,  Islamabad

1998:
National Seminar on ‘Pakistan Archaeology’, Bara Gali Summer Campus,     Organized by the Department of Archaeology, University of Peshawar.

2001:
National Seminar on ‘Pakistan Archaeology’, Bara Gali Summer Campus, Organized by the Department of Archaeology, University of Peshawar.

2002:
South Asian Landscape Archaeology Conference, Organized by the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, UK

2003:
17th International Conference on South Asian Archaeology (7-11th  July), Bonn, Germany

2003:
Oxford Symposium (15th-17th September 2004) on ‘Indian Numismatics, Epigraphy and Archaeology, Recent Advances in Reconstructing the Past’. Organized by the Ashmolean Museum, The University of Oxford, UK

2005:
18th International Conference on South Asian Archaeology (4-8th July, London), UK

2005:
Secretary to the 1st International Symposium on Pakistan Archaeology (September 2005)

2007:
First Centenary of the Peshawar Museum Peshawar NWFP (January 8th-10th, 2007)

Research activities

In the years 1985-1987 has taken part to the excavations of the Pak-British Bannu Archaeological Mission under the direction of Prof. Farid Khan, Mr. Robert Knox and Prof. Dr. K.D. Thomas

In the years 1993-1997 he has taken part to the campaigns of the joint Pak-German Archaeological mission in Pakistan.

In 1998 and 1999 he has directed survey, documentation and linguistic study in Swat and Dir Kohistan under the project “Cultural Area Karakorum”.

From 1999 he has been engaged in studying an important collection of Kharosthi manuscripts discovered in Gandhāra.

Since 2001 he has been directing the Kashmir Smast Archaeological Research Project Smast.

From 2005 he is co-directing Pak-UK Pushkalavati Archaeological Research Project.
Since the year 2007 he has also been excavating at Aziz Dheri, the only Stūpa and Settlement site in ancient Gandhāra.

Since 2007, in collaboration with Dr. Michael Alram of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, he has been running the project “Pre-Islamic Numismatic Historic in Greater Gandhāra”.

From 2007 he is the Coordinator of the Higher Education Commission – British Council Joint Cooperative Link in Higher Education Programme. This cooperative link in archaeology is between the University Peshawar and the University of Cambridge.

Since 2007/2008 he is conducting archaeological excavation at Aziz Dheri, a stupa and settlement site in ancient Gandhāra
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Books:
2000. Buddhist Paintings in Gandhāra.
2006. Treasures from Kashmir Smast. The Earliest Shaiva Monastic Establishment.
2008. Coins from Kashmir Smast. New Numismatic Evidence.
2008. Kharoshthi Manuscripts from Gandhāra.

Research papers

1994 Rock-carvings and Inscriptions at Helor Das. Antiquities of Northern Pakistan III: 201-211.. Mainz.

1997  Iranian Symbols in the Rock-Carvings of the Upper Indus. Atthariyyat (Archaeology), Vol. I, pp. 97-108. Peshawar.

1997  Ashokan Inscriptions: A Palaeographical Study. Atthariyyat (Archaeology), Vol. I, pp. 131-150. Peshawar.

1998  Epigraphy in Pakistan. The Glory that was Pakistan. 50 Years of Archaeological Research in Pakistan : 39-44. Peshawar.

1998  Rock Art in Pakistan. The Glory that was Pakistan. 50 Years of Archaeological Research in Pakistan : 45-48. Peshawar.

1998 Fauna in the Rock-Carving site Thor North  (Northern Areas of Pakistan). Ancient Pakistan, Vol. XII : 169-176. Peshawar.

1998. Some Thoughts on the Nature of the Gold Ornament From Pattan (Indus Kohistan). Ancient Pakistan, Vol. XII : 127-138. Peshawar.

1998. A Critical Note on the Stupa-like Structure in the Petroglyphs of the Upper Indus Valley. Ancient Pakistan, Vol. XII : 35-45. Peshawar.

1998. Inscribed Clay Tablets and Miniature Stupas from Hund. Ancient Pakistan, Vol. XII : 77-91. Peshawar

1999. A Proto-Sharada Inscription from Hund – Pakistan. Indo-Koko-Kenkyu----Indian Archaeological Studies, No. 20: 77-83. Tokyo.

1999. Two dated Kharoshthi Inscriptions from Gandhāra. Journal of Asian Civilizations (Journal of Central Asia), Vol. XXII, No.1, July 1999 : 99-103. Islamabad

2000.  An Inscribed Relic-casket from Dir. The Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. V, No. 1, March 1997: 21-33. Peshawar

2000. Kharoshthi Inscription from Swabi - Gandhāra. The Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. V, No. 2. September 1997: 49-52. Peshawar.

2000.  An Inscribed Image of Narasiµha (Vishnu Avatara from Cheniot, Punjab – Pakistan.  The Journal of Humanities an Social  Sciences, Vol. VI, No. 1, March 1998: 12-20. Peshawar

2000. Epigraphy is a Source of Gandhāra History. The Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol. VI, No. 2, September 1998: 30-45. Peshawar.

2000. Recent Discovery of Two More Kharoshthi  Inscriptions from Gandhāra. Ancient Pakistan XIII: 1-6. Peshawar.

2000. A Wooden Sculpture of Bala Krishna from Gandhāra. Ancient Pakistan XIII: 26-34. Peshawar.

2000. Sharada Inscription from Mir Ali North Waziristan. A Preliminary Report. Ancient Pakistan XIII: 35-39. Peshawar.

2000. Archaeological Discoveries in Darel. Muzot: An Iron Grave Culture Site. Ancient Pakistan XIII: 19-119. Peshawar.

2000. Kanishka Relic-Casket from Qunduz, Northern-Afghanistan. Archaologische Mitteilungen Aus Iran und Turan, Band 31 – 1999: 191-198. Berlin.

2000. Gupta Copper Plate Inscription from Sita Maha Kandara (Kashmir Smast) in Ancient Gandhāra. Indo- Koko-Kenkyu----Indian Archaeological Studies, No. 21: 47-52. 1999-2000. Tokyo

2001. Rock-Carvings at Kinro-Kor: A Prehistoric Site of the Northern Areas of Pakistan Lahore Museum Bulletin. July-December 2000, Volume  XIII, No. 2: 1-7. Lahore

2001. Brahmi Inscription of the ‘Year 78’ from Spina – South Waziristan. Indo-Koko-Kenkyu – Indian Archaeological Studies. No. 22: 111-115. Tokyo.

2002. Problematic Inscribed Relief Panel in a Private Collection Showing Events from the Buddha’s Life. Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. Peshawar

2003. LajjaŒ Gauri´ Seals and related antiquities from Kashmir Smast. South Asian Studies 18. 2002: 83-90. Wiltshire, UK

2003 Exploration and Excavation at the Earliest Shivaite Monastic Establishment at Kashmir Smast. A Preliminary Report. Ancient Pakistan XIV 2001: 218-309.

2003 Re-interpretation of the Gupta Copper Plate Inscription from Kashmir Smast with the Discovery of Some More Epigraphic Evidences from Kashmir Smast – A Shivaite Cave Temple Site in Gandhāra. Ancient Pakistan XIV 2001: 1-8.

2003. A SharaŒda inscription from Gandhāra. Indo-Koko-Kenyku – Indian Archaeological Studies. No. 23: 83-86. Tokyo.

2003.  Kashmir Smast: Discovery of the Earliest Shivaite Monastic Establishment in Pakistan. Circle of Inner Asian Art (CIAA). News Letter. Issue 8 – December 2003: 19-26. London

2004. Vasutara and his Family in the Epigraphical Records of the Upper Indus Valley. Ancient Pakistan 2002/2003. Vol. XV: 157-172

2004. A Short Note on Archaeological Discoveries in Chitral, Pakistan.  Ancient Pakistan 2002. Vol. XV: 179-185

2004. Kharoshthi Inscribed Copper Plates from Rani Dab at Orakzai Agency in the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan. Ancient Pakistan 2002. Vol. XV: 1153-156

2005. Kashmir Smast (Gandhāra) and its Religious Significance. Study Based on Epigraphic and other Antiquities from the Site. South Asian Archaeology 2003. Proceeding of the Seventeenth International Conference of the European Association of South Asian Archaeologists (7-12 July 2003, Bonn). Edited by Ute Franke-Vogt and Hans-Joachim Weisshaar: 247-252.

2005. Asmidesha (Manro Das): A Rock carving site in the region of Chilas – Upper Indus Valley, Northern Pakistan. Indo-Koko-Kenkyu – Indian Archaeological Studies. No.26: 73-84. Tokyo

2006. Some More Lajja Gauri Seals and Related Antiquities from Kashmir Smast. Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. Vol. XI, Nos. 1 & 2 (2003): 7-12. Peshawar

2006. Buddhist Kharoshthi Manuscripts from Gandhāra. Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences. Vol. XII, Nos. 1 & 2 (2004): 9-15. Peshawar

2007. Inscribed Oil lamps and other Kharoshthi Inscriptions from Gandhāra. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. Vol. 17, Part 2: 131-138. Cambridge University Press

2007. The Coin Collection in the Royal Asiatic Society. James Tod’s Rajasthan, edited by Giles Tillotson: 80-85. MARG publication

2007. Kohi Script from Gadnahra. Discovery of an-other Ancient Writing System. Gandharan Studies, Vol. 1. 89-118

2008. Excavation at Aziz Dheri (Field Campaign 2007/2008). Gandharan Studies, Vol. 2: 71-120

2008. Emulation at the Edge of Empire: the Adoptation of Non-local Vessel Forms in the NWFP, Pakistan During the mid-late 1st Millennium BC. Gandharan Studies, Vol. 2: 1- 16.

2009. Petrie C.A., Magee, P., Khan, F. and Nasim Khan, M. Breaking down the code of the Ch. I sequence at the Bala Hisar, Chārsadda (NWFP, Pakistan) – Part I: layers 51a-20, Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan

2009. Rock-paintings from Kashmir-Smast. Study and Analysis. Ancient Pakistan Vol. XVI. In press.

2009. Terracotta Seals Impressions from Bala Hisar – Charsadda. Ancient Pakistan, Vol. XVI. In press.

2009. Clay Models of Hindu Shrines from Ancient Gandhāra. Shri Krishna Deva Vol. In press