KAVREPALANCHOWK, FEB 22
Nepal has received a report of the geophysical survey conducted at archeological sites of Panchkhal Municipality by a team of experts from the UK a year ago.
Although it was said that team would send the report after three months, it was received after around one year due to various reasons, including the coronavirus pandemic.
The survey carried out by Archaeologist of the Department of Archaeology along with the expert team from London at different places of Panchkhal Municipality last March, suggested high potential of historic archaeological features.
The survey facilitated by the team from the UK's Durham University covered the surroundings of the areas - Simalighari, Basukisthan, Maltar, Kankeshwor Mahadev Temple, health post and Bharamkot of Ward 6.
Bishnu Pathak, archaeological officer of the Department, who was also in the survey team, said that immense potentiality of historic heritages was seen in the course of the survey in Panchkhal.
Pathak said, "Immense potentiality of historic heritages was seen in the archaeological sites where the survey was conducted in the course of data analysis.
The report of the survey received from the UK will mention it in details."
The detailed report of the survey will be released only after a month, said Spokesperson for the Department Ram Bahadur Kunwar.
He added that geophysical survey was conducted at other places of the country, including Panchkhal, in order to find out what kind of physical infrastructure are there underground in the first phase.
The geophysical survey was carried out at Panchkhal through British Survey's machine and drone camera.
Earlier, the Department had, on 29 June 2020, informed UNESCO about the heritages of Panchkhal.
The eight-member team of Durham University in London, had arrived in Nepal in the first week of March 2021 to carry out the survey of heritages of different places of the country, including Panchkhal.
A version of this article appears in the print on February 223 2022, of The Himalayan Times.
