page_title: Hund Museum
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Hund Museum / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Ruined fort wall This is a photo of a monument in Pakistan identified as the KPK-40
context_page_description: Hund Museum located in Hund, near the bank of the Indus River above Attock, Swabi district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
context_section_description: Hund is the oldest city of the Swabi district located on the right bank of Indus River, having very rich history and passed through different eras with different peoples like Gandhara civilization after this passed by Hindu Shahi period the Muslim period and all the conquers of this region passed by there like Alexander the Great in 327 BC also passed by this city and had spent a night in the village, before entering the Indian plains. Another famous Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, traveller, translator and pilgrim Hiuen Tsang passed through this area in 644 AD. After Peshawar and Charsadda, it was the third capital of the Hindu Shahi period dynasty.
  Dr Abdur Rahman (ex-Chairman of the Department of Archaeology, University of Peshawar), who has done his PhD thesis on Hund, according to him the Hund remained the third capital after Charsadda (then Pushkalavati) and Peshawar (erstwhile Purushapura) of the state spreading from Kabul to Punjab and Swat.
caption: Signboard on Main Swabi-Jehangira Road indicating Hund Museum way and distance
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