Jandial

Welcome to the entrance of the Jandial Temple site, a sacred historical location that holds the very essence of ancient Gandharan civilization. Taxila, where you are standing today, was a grand civilizational crossroads where the…

The most astonishing revelation you experience upon arriving at this grand front portico is that here in the very heart of South Asia, in modern day Pakistan, you are looking directly at masterfully sculpted classical Greek Ionic…

Standing inside this pronaos entry courtyard, the most astonishing fact you discover is that the towering walls of this monumental temple were not built of plain monolithic stone, but were originally constructed using a unique…

The most astonishing revelation you experience here inside the central sanctuary, or naos, is that at the very heart of a building designed like a classical Greek temple, there stood not a sculpted statue of a Greek deity, but a…

Standing inside the opisthodomos, the classical rear chamber of the temple, the most astonishing fact to discover is that using the broad stone steps preserved beneath your feet, ancient priests once climbed up to the summit of a…

Looking across the ancient road toward the opposite hill, the most astonishing fact to realize is that beneath a mound that was dismissed for over a century as an unremarkable heap of dirt, archaeologists recently unearthed a…

Here at this panoramic viewpoint overlooking the elegant sandstone foundations of the Jandial Temple and the newly unearthed northern mound across the ancient road, we conclude our audio tour of the Jandial archaeological site.…