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Chilas (Urdu: چلاس) is a small town located in the Northern Areas, Pakistan. It is connected to the Silk Road by the Karakoram Highway which links it to Islamabad in the south via Dassu, Mansehra, Abbottabad and Haripur. In the north, Chilas is connected to the Chinese cities of Kashgar and Tashkurgan via ,Gilgit and Sost. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (600x856, 1807 KB) Description, Source and License / Beschreibung, Quelle und Lizenz This is a map of Karakoram Highway, the road that links the Northern Areas of Pakistan to the Xinjiang province of China, connecting it to the old Silk Road. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (600x856, 1807 KB) Description, Source and License / Beschreibung, Quelle und Lizenz This is a map of Karakoram Highway, the road that links the Northern Areas of Pakistan to the Xinjiang province of China, connecting it to the old Silk Road. ... Karakoram Highway route map The highest point on the highway: the Khunjerab Pass The Karakoram Highway (KKH) is the highest paved international road in the world. ... Urdu ( , , trans. ... Gilgit-Baltistan or the Northern Areas is the northernmost region of Pakistan. ... The Silk Road Silk Route redirects here. ... Karakoram Highway route map The highest point on the highway: the Khunjerab Pass The Karakoram Highway (KKH) is the highest paved international road in the world. ... Islamabad (Urdu: Ø§Ø³Ù„Ø§Ù… Ø¢Ø¨Ø§Ø¯) is the capital city of Pakistan, and is located in the Potohar Plateau in the northwest of the country. ... Mansehra (Urdu: Ù…Ø§Ù†Ø³ÛØ±Û) is city located in Mansehra District, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan. ... Abbottabad (Urdu: Ø§ÛŒØ¨Ù¹ Ø¢Ø¨Ø§Ø¯) is the principal city of the Abbottabad District in the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan. ... Haripur is a city in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, 65 km north of Islamabad and 35 km south of Abbottabad, in a hilly plain area . ... Location of Kashgar Kashgars Sunday market Kashgar (also spelled Cascar[1]) (Uyghur: /; Chinese: ; pinyin: , ), is an oasis city in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the Peoples Republic of China. ... Overview of the Karakoram Highway Tashkurgan is the name of a town and the surrounding district in western Xinjiang, China // Tashkurgan is a Uighur name that means Stone Fortress or Stone Tower. ... Gilgit Valle,By Rakaposhi Hiking Club Nawabshah Budhas Picture at Kargah,By Rakaposhi Hiking Club Nawabshah Gilgit (Urdu: Ú¯Ù„Ú¯Øª) is the capital city of the Northern Areas, Pakistan. ... Overview of the Karakoram Highway This article is about the town in Gojal. ...

Ancient petroglyphs

Ancient petroglyphs near Chilas

Main article: Northern Areas, Pakistan#Rock art and petroglyphs

There are more than 20,000 pieces of rock art and petroglyphs all along the Karakoram Highway in Northern Areas of Pakistan that are conentrated at ten major sites between Hunza and Shatial. The carvings were left by various invaders, traders and pilgrims who passed along the trade route, as well as by locals. The earliest date back to between 5000 and 1000 BC, showing single animals, triangular men and hunting sccenes in which the animals are larger than the hunters. These carvings were pecked into the rock with stone tools and are covered with a thick patina that proves their age. Image File history File linksMetadata Petroglyphs_near_Chilas_-_Pakistan05_007. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Petroglyphs_near_Chilas_-_Pakistan05_007. ... Petroglyphs on a Bishop Tuff tableland Petroglyph on Petroglyph Point Petroglyphs on Petroglyph Point Petroglyphs on Petroglyph Point Petroglyphs on Newspaper Rock State Historic Monument Petroglyphs from Scandinavia (Häljesta, Västmanland in Sweden). ... The Northern Areas (Urdu: Ø´Ù…Ø§Ù„ÛŒ Ø¹Ù„Ø§Ù‚Û’ ) or Gilgit-Baltistan is the northernmost region of Pakistani-administered Kashmir. ... Petroglyphs on Newspaper Rock State Historic Monument, southern Utah, USA Petroglyphs are images created by removing part of a rock surfaces by incising, pecking, carving, and abrading. ... Karakoram Highway route map The highest point on the highway: the Khunjerab Pass The Karakoram Highway (KKH) is the highest paved international road in the world. ... Shown in green is the Kashmiri region under Pakistani control. ... This page is about the town of Hunza in northern areas of Pakistan. ... Pilgrims is the name commonly applied to early settlers of the Plymouth Colony in present-day Massachusetts. ... BC may stand for: Before Christ (see Anno Domini) : an abbreviation used to refer to a year before the beginning of the year count that starts with the supposed year of the birth of Jesus. ... Carving can mean Rock carving Wood carving Meat carving Ivory carving Bone carving Skiing carving style See also: Sculpture, Lapidary This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... The Statue of Liberty gets its green color from the patina formed on its copper surface Patinas are chemical compounds formed on the surface of metals. ...

The archaeologist Karl Jettmar has pieced together the history of the area from various inscriptions and recorded his findings in Rockcarvings and Inscriptions in the Northern Areas of Pakistan and the later released Between Gandhara and the Silk Roads - Rock carvings Along the Karakoram Highway.

References

Jettmar, Karl et al. (1985): Zwischen Gandhara und den Seidenstrassen: Felsbilder am Karakorum Highway: Entdeckungen deutsch-pakistanischer Expeditionen 1979-1984. 1985. Mainz am Rhein, Philipp von Zabern.
Jettmar. Karl (1980): Bolor & Dardistan. Karl Jettmar. Islamabad, National Institute of Folk Heritage.
Leitner, G. W. (1893): Dardistan in 1866, 1886 and 1893: Being An Account of the History, Religions, Customs, Legends, Fables and Songs of Gilgit, Chilas, Kandia (Gabrial) Yasin, Chitral, Hunza, Nagyr and other parts of the Hindukush, as also a supplement to the second edition of The Hunza and Nagyr Handbook. And An Epitome of Part III of the author’s “The Languages and Races of Dardistan.” First Reprint 1978. Manjusri Publishing House, New Delhi.

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