Kathmandu Metropolitan City - History

History

Archaeological excavations in parts of Kathmandu have found evidence of ancient civilizations. The oldest of these findings is a statue, found in Maligaon, that has been dated to 185 A.D The excavation of Dhando Chaitya uncovered a brick with inscription in Brahmi script. Archaeologists believe it to be two thousand years old.

Read more about this topic:  Kathmandu Metropolitan City

Famous quotes containing the word history:

    If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and fury of a completely irrational history or to endow history with the form of human reason.
    Albert Camus (1913–1960)

    The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.
    Lytton Strachey (1880–1932)

    These anyway might think it was important
    That human history should not be shortened.
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)