May 7: Anadolu Agency report by Aamir Latif states that a narrow, battered road leads to a hilly plain peppered with magnificently built funerary complexes, tombs, and graves in various sizes -- many fully or partially damaged, while others have started to crumble. This is Makli, one of the world’s largest necropolises, located about 100 kilometers (62 miles) east of Pakistan’s commercial capital Karachi, and just 7 kilometers (4.3 miles) from the historic Thatta, the once capital of Sindh, which until 1840 had been an independent state, and for centuries, a land occupied by foreign invaders -- from Alexander the Great to Mughal emperors, and from Samma to Tarkhan and Arghun rulers. Located on a Makli foothill, and added to the UNESCO’s list of protected heritage sites in 1981, the necropolis consists of over 20,000 tombs, pavilions, and open graves of rulers, army generals, poets, architects, and unnamed soldiers dating back to the 14th century.
Anadolu Agency: Asia’s largest necropolis is losing sheen — Pakistan
