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Indirectly, this is a proof of\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethe “vitality” of a methodology which gives priority to the three-dimensional\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003einformation that only the excavation of an urban centre can provide, and which\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIsMEO (now ISMEO) has always considered as the specificity of its\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003earchaeological missions throughout in the world.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAfter 36 years of campaigns (not counting those by Giorgio Stacul in the 1970s),\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBīr-koṭ-ghwaṇḍai, the identification of which with the ancient town of Bazira-\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBeira\/Vajīrasthāna is now certain, can be considered, together with Sirkap, the\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003emost crucial excavated settlement site in the North-West of the Indo-Pakistani\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSubcontinent. We are pleased that this has happened not only for the work of two\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eof the Authors of this volume, two distinguished ISMEO scholars, but also\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethrough an international collaboration that is outlined by the introductory words\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eof Cameron A. Petrie and further demonstrated by the many co-authors whose\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003enames appear on the front page of this volume.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlthough the site has been regularly published, for the pottery material we had to\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewait more time than planned originally. In fact, the tragic earthquake that hit\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003enorthern Pakistan in 2005 had a dramatic effect on the pottery collections\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003econserved in the two godowns of the ISMEO Italian Mission at Saidu Sharif (see\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ebelow the Introduction to the volume). This circumstance would have only partly\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eaffected the possibility of homogeneously integrating the descriptive data. As\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ematter of fact, the complete dataset had been brought to the Mission headquarters\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eat the IsIAO before the event occurred.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUnfortunately, though, following the dissolution of IsIAO by the Italian\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGovernment authorities due to lack of funds (IsIAO was the Institute on which the\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eItalian Mission had depended from 1995 to 2012) the offices of the various\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003earchaeological missions kept in Rome were vacated. The following numerous\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003echanges of venue affected the archaeological deposits before a temporary place\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewas found in the storerooms of the Museo Nazionale di Arte Orientale ‘Giuseppe\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTucci’, now in the Museo delle Civiltà (EUR, Rome). Meanwhile a good\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eproportion of the pottery records were lost. The event had a particular effect on\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethe records of the inscribed sherds, as narrated in the introductory note of the\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ededicated chapter.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe present volume adds to other published in the series ACT-Field School\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProject Reports and Memoirs from the well-deserved publisher Sang-e-Meel\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublications, Lahore. The ceramic material from the most recent excavations\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(2012-2014, Kushano-Sasanian phases) was published with Massimo Vidale in\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eviii\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVolume II (2014): The Last Phases of the Urban Site of Bir-kot-ghwandai\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(Barikot). The Buddhist Sites of Gumbat and Amluk-dara (Barikot).\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe ceramic material of the excavations 2014-2017 (Indo-Greek and Saka-\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eParthian phases), was studied together with the contemporary phases from the\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eexcavations on the Acropolis of 1998-1999 by Elisa Iori in her doctoral thesis\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(University of Bologna “Alma Mater”, 2018), and it is pretty much ready for final\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003epublication in this same series (Special Volume 2.3: Ceramics from the\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eExcavations in the Historic Settlement at Bīr-koṭ-ghwaṇḍai (Barikot) Swat,\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePakistan (1998-2017). The Early-Historic Phases, to be printed in 2021).\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAll these important scientific and editorial results are due to the incessant activity\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eof the past and current Directors of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Swat,\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethe two Authors of this volume, who continue at the highest level the work of a\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003egreat master like Domenico Faccenna in a part of the world to which the names of\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eItaly and ISMEO are now inextricably linked.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat has been said so far brings to light how important has been the role of\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003escholars operating under the aegis of the IsMEO (1957-1995), then of IsIAO\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(1995-2012), and finally of the reestablished ISMEO (2012-) in the\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ecomprehensive analysis of the ceramics from the first phase of excavation at Bīrkoṭ-\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eghwaṇḍai between 1984 and 1992.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMoreover, in the most recent period, starting in 2012, the assignment to the\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMuseo delle Civiltà of all materials of archaeological interest of the\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIsMEO\/IsIAO Missions created the conditions for a global scientific\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ereconsideration to which this study (and other similar ones) will certainly provide\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003esignificant contributions. This is the area of collaboration in view of which a\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eformal agreement has been signed between ISMEO, that I have the honour of\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003epresiding over, and the Museo delle Civiltà, and also the reason why a specific\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ebudget line of the five-year MIUR Project “Studies and research on the cultures of\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAsia and Africa: tradition and continuity, revitalization and dissemination” is\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003edevoted to the reordering of the IsIAO archives.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA final word on the close collaboration between IsMEO\/IsIAO\/ISMEO, Italy and\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethe political and cultural authorities of Pakistan and the Province of Khyber\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePakhtunkhwa. 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And unlike what the cheerleaders of Capitol predicted following the destruction of the ‘Red Menace’, the world of the 21\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003est \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecentury has only become more polarized, more dangerous and more uncertain.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 13\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 14\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGovernments come and go, so do wars and empires. Emperors, kings and presidents, too, rise and fall with the times but through it all humankind’s desire to rise to greater nobility and perfection persists. And poets, the ‘unacknowledged legislators of the world’ as Shelley said, are our guides and fortune-tellers. They peer into the human heart and see what lies in its depths, they can discern what lies beyond the heavens, and this is why they have always been revered and feared in equal measure. It is essential for a poet \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eto understand and reflect something universal about the human \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003econdition if they are to rise above the mundane. And great poetry requires much more. The ability to perceive and sing about the universality of all human life, both throughout history as well as in the context of the cosmos. And if one can wed this depth and breadth of vision to Love (with a capital ‘L’), as Faiz did, one can perhaps begin to touch greatness. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 14\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut this is an endless endeavor, as is the human struggle itself. Faiz wrote about this repeatedly. 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