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The sketch plan of Qal'a-i Hauz

Seventy-five kilometres to the south-east of Bust / Lashkari Bazar, in the Registan desert, is the unplanned, contemporary site of Qal’a-i Hauz. Only meagre descriptions of the fortress and its nearby reservoir exist, following a visit by a French explorer in 1971 (Balsan 1972a: 169-173; 1972b: 156). The Google Earth images of Qal’a-i Hauz have enabled us to generate a detailed sketch plan (Fig. 2) and measurements to complement Balsan’s descriptions. They have also revealed several small, enigmatic structures nearby which Balsan does not mention.
Fig. 2: Google Earth image and ASAGE plan of Qal’a-i Hauz - © ASAGE-Project
Fig. 2: Google Earth image and ASAGE plan of Qal’a-i Hauz - © ASAGE-Project

Qal’a-i Hauz is the only known archaeological site in the Registan desert so our attention turned to a strip of five high resolution images running north from Qal’a-i Hauz to the Arghandab river. We selected this strip because of its proximity to Bust, and because of the excellent visibility due to the limited vegetation cover and low level of human activity. Hours of analysis of the 1,367 km2 strip, and the subsequent cataloguing of 1800 ‘Placemarks’ marking the locations of structures and anomalies, have resulted in the identification of 451 probable and possible archaeological sites.

 

The Newly Identified Sites ...

 

© ASAGE-Project - David C. Thomas, Claudia Zipfel, Fiona J. Kidd und Suzanna Nikolovski