M Harunur Rashid (archaeologist)

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M Harunur Rashid (1925 – 10 October 2010) was a Bangladeshi archaeologist, educationist and museum curator, who excavated archaeological sites in Pakistan and Bangladesh.^[1]

Education

Rashid passed the matriculation in 1940 from Abu Torab High School in

Rashid joined Bhairab College as a lecturer in History and then he moved to join the Archaeology of Pakistan. He worked as a curator at Lahore Museum and later joined the Taxila Museum. Along with British archaeologist Mortimer Wheeler, he excavated Banbhore, Taxila, Harappa, Mohenjo-daro and many other sites of Pakistan.^[1] These excavations along with "...the principal finds of all classes formed the necessary foundation..." of Early South-East Bengal History between 6th and 13th centuries A.D.^[2]

After 1971 Rashid started working as a senior official in the Directorate of Archaeology until 1982. He also compiled and edited the volume on Bangladesh Archaeology in 1979.^[1][3]

He worked as a visiting professor at the Department of History, Jahangirnagar University in Savar. He also taught at the Institute of Fine Arts and History Department of the University of Dhaka.

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