Illustrated lecture by Dr. Luca Maria Olivieri, University of Bologna

Chair: Prof. Himanshu Prabha Ray, Chairperson, National Monuments Authority

Italian archaeologists have been exploring Pakistan's magical Swat Valley for nearly 60 years. Dr. Luca M.Olivieri who is co-director of the Italian Archaeological Mission and runs the ACT (Archaeology, Community, Tourism) Field School, has worked in Swat since 1987. He will speak about the three ACT projects in Swat: the Buddhist sacred area at Amluk-dara; a Kushan urban site at Barikot; and a late-Bronze Age graveyard recently uncovered in Udegram. He will also give an overview of the restoration of the Jahanabad Buddha partially destroyed by the Taliban, of the Udegram mosque and of the Saidu Sharif I main stupa, as well as the reconstruction of the Swat Museum