Malot Fort

Malot Fort (Urdu: ملوٹ قلعہ) is a temple-fortress located in Chakwal District in the Punjab Province of Pakistan.

[3][4] Malot Fort was built in the 10th century AD and has the synthesis of Kashmiri and Greek architecture.

[5] Constructed following the decline and eventual disappearance of Greek Taxila, Malot Fort was developed by the stonemasons of the Potohar plateau who preserved the Greek architectural techniques across multiple generations.

[6] Rudyard Kipling described it in his novel, Kim as "...by workmen whose hands were feeling, and not unskilfully, for the mysteriously transmitted Grecian touch.

"[6] Over the course of a millennium, the hill on which Malot resides has experienced geological alterations, resulting in the formation of narrow fissures.

Ruins of a temple at Malot