Swat mosque from conqueror's time survives ravages of 1,000 years
The Sultan Mahmud Ghaznavi Mosque, which was built a thousand years ago, is one of the oldest mosques located in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Swat. The remains of its stony architecture sit in a steppe on a soaring mountain and despite weathering storms, resisting floods, and withstanding earthquakes that shook its great walls, it still stands today. The Ghaznavi mosque was excavated in 1984 by Italian archaeologists after an inscription-engraved stone was discovered at the site. The Italian archaeologist Umberto Scerrato in Ghazni in Afghanistan in 1957. He discovered the Sultan Mahmood mosque in...