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Wari-Bateshwar: Early Historic Urban Centre

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Sufi Mostafizur Rahman

Scholarly overview of Wari-Bateshwar as an early historic settlement and trade-linked archaeological landscape.

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research-articles-and-papers · Archaeology and Early Bengal

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c. 600-400 BCE

Wari-Bateshwar Early Urban Centre

Wari-Bateshwar in present-day Narsingdi is an archaeological complex often discussed as one of Bengal’s earliest urban or proto-urban centres. Excavated material has been used to connect the site with early settlement, craft production, coinage, and wider trade networks in the eastern delta.