Bannu

The Bannu basin is watered by the Kurram and Gambila, or Tochi, rivers, whose valleys open towards the Indus. Its history reaches back to the village of Sheri Khan Tarakai, occupied from the late fifth to the early third millennium BCE. At Akra, archaeologists have found a large Iron Age settlement with links to Central Asia. In antiquity the region was known as Sattagydia, the “country of a hundred cows,” and formed part of an Achaemenid taxation district.