A letter to your friend about the Historical importance of Bangladesh

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edutechinfobd

21 Nov, 2019
House-12,
Road-11,
Block-A,
Mirpur, Dhaka,
Bangladesh

Dear Smith,

Hope you are hale and hearty. In your last letter, you have wanted to know about an ancient relic of our locality. You know our home district is in Naogaon. So there we have an ancient relic. Here I am giving you a brief description about it.
Paharpur is a significant archaeological site situated in a village named ‘Paharpur’ in Naogaon district which is the northern part of Bangladesh. ‘Pahar’ means hill. Hence is the name Paharpur. Naogoan is mainly plain land but in the middle of it stood a hill covered with jungle. When the jungle was cleared and the hill excavated, there emerged a lofty ruin of an ancient temple. The temple is about 24 metre high from the surrounding level.
The excavated complex of Paharpur has been identified with the Somapura Mahavihara built by the second Pala king Dharmapala (781-821 AD). The Paharpur site has been excavated and re-excavated a number of times by archaeologists. Sir Alexander visited the place in 1879. To learn more about this place, the Department of Archaeology of Bangladesh brought the site under further excavation after independence. The operations took place in two phases. The first phase of excavation was initiated in 1981-82 and continued to 1984-1985. The second phase was started in 1988-89 and continued to 1990-91.
No more today. I’ll b waiting for your reply.

Your affectionately,
BR Sumon