Harking back: As life moves on and on, we ignore our layered past
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2575490/hidden-mughal-chambers-rediscovered-under-lahore-fort-after-centuries
Media Source: Dawn (Pakistan)
Date: 15 December 2025
As Lahore experiences a massive ‘destructive’ experience of past historic sites in the name of ‘development’, the rulers claim it is ‘cultural regeneration’. Lahore city has been destroyed seven times, but the lesson learned is that the inner base of the fort has risen all the time. Today
As Lahore experiences a massive ‘destructive’ experience of past historic sites in the name of ‘development’, the rulers claim it is ‘cultural regeneration’. Lahore city has been destroyed seven times, but the lesson learned is that the inner base of the fort has risen all the time. Today it stands almost 50 feet above the outer ground level. This is a development that was first realised when the Aga Khan Trust for Culture worked on the Shahi Hammam inside Delhi gate. The outer road surface is today 12 feet above the inner bath level. Experts say that the covering up of past fort artifacts was the work of the Mughal emperor Shah Jehan as he worked to complete the beautiful courtyard inside. But then as the Aga Khan experts work away, they keep finding new halls and tunnels and special places below the present top.