Bhir Mound

Bhir Mound
بھڑ ماونڈ

The ruins of Bhir Mound, Taxila, Pakistan
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Coordinates	33°44′36″N 72°49′11″E / 33.7433894°N 72.819614°E / 33.7433894; 72.819614
Type	Settlement
History
Founded	c. 800–525 BC
Abandoned	c. 1st century BC
Periods	Achaemenid, Indo-Greeks
Cultures	Gandhara
Site notes
Archaeologists	John Marshall Mortimer Wheeler Mohammad Sharif
UNESCO World Heritage Site
Official name	Taxila
Criteria	iii, iv
Designated	1980
Reference no.	139

930m
1014yds

Sirsukh

Sirkap

Bhir Mound

Hathial

   

Taxila archaeological sites

The Bhir Mound (Urdu: بھڑ ماونڈ) is an archaeological site in Taxila in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It contains some of the oldest ruins of Ancient Taxila, dated to sometime around the period 800–525 BC as its earliest layers bear "grooved" Red Burnished Ware,^[1] the Bhir Mound, along with several other nearby excavations, form part of the Ruins of Taxila – inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980.