Description
Bambhore is situated on the northern bank of the Gharo Creek. Excavations here exposed the earliest Muslim settlement of the subcontinent. The remains of a fortified city with cultural material of three distinct periods i.e., Scytho-Parthian, Hindu-Buddhist and the Islamic datable from the 1st century BCE to the 13th century CE were exposed. The fortified citadel of Bambhore is enclosed by a massive fortification wall having semi-circular bastions at regular intervals, three gateways, one each in the east, north-east and south respectively, an anchorage near the southern gate, an industrial area outside the citadel and the grand mosque which is considered to be the earliest mosque in the sub-continent besides residential houses with streets, lanes and by-lanes cutting one another at right angles.
