Taxila

Taxila was a city of the Gandhara civilisation on the road from the Ganges to Central Asia, and UNESCO listed its ruins in 1980 as one of the first Pakistani sites on the list. What is protected is not one site but more than a dozen spread over thirty kilometres, from the Bhir Mound of the sixth century BCE through the Greek grid city of Sirkap to the monasteries of Jaulian and Mohra Muradu on their hilltops. The Dharmarajika stupa is the largest single monument. The museum holds the Gandharan Buddhas found in all of them. Alexander's army passed through on the way east and the city surrendered without a fight.