Archaeological site, Narsingdi
Wari-Bateshwarউয়ারী-বটেশ্বর
- Time needed
- Two to three hours.
- best months
- Nov–Feb
- Cost
- Small museum ticket; the site itself is open fields.
One of the oldest urban sites in Bangladesh: a fortified settlement of roughly 400 to 100 BCE in two villages of Belabo, with a rampart, a moat, a paved road and finds of punch-marked coins and beads.
At a glance
- Age
- About 400–100 BCE
- Excavated
- Since 2000
About
Villagers here had been finding silver coins and beads in their fields for generations before a local schoolteacher began collecting them in the 1930s. Systematic excavation since 2000 has uncovered a square fortified area with an earthen wall and moat, a road of lime and brick fragments, pit dwellings, and Northern Black Polished Ware, which ties the site to the wider trade of its age.
What you see on the ground is modest: open trenches when a dig is on, low mounds and the line of the old rampart through the fields. The small museum at the site, built around the local collection, is where the coins, beads and pottery make the story clear.
Getting there: Bus from Narsingdi to Marjal on the Dhaka–Sylhet highway, then about 30 minutes by CNG to Wari.
Things to do
- Start at the site museum, then walk to the trenches and the rampart line.
Good to know
- Winter is the digging season; that is when there is most to see.
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