Article Author: AKTC hopes to discover pre-Qutb Shahi civilisation
Media Source: The New Indian Express (India)
Date: 28 April 2019
The Qutb Shahi Heritage Park, which includes seven major tombs of Qutb Shahi emperors apart from 80 other monuments, have been under restoration for the last five years. Stressing on the need for a series of archaeological excavations at the Qutb Shahi Heritage Park site, Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) CEO Ratish Nanda said that, if followed through, it could reveal the existence of a civilisation predating the Qutb Shahis. Nanda, whose AKTC is taking up the conservation of the Qutb Shahi tombs in collaboration with the State government, said while delivering a lecture at Lamakaan on 26 April, "We need a whole series of excavations to reveal the history of the site. There could even be foundations of a whole settlement that existed here before the site became a necropolis."
