Baluchistan Terra Incognita : a New Methodological Approach Combining Archaeological, Historical, Anthropological and Architectural Studies

The region of Baluchistan in southern Pakistan was known as terra incognita for much of its history. Described by various geographers and historians since the Greco-Roman period as a truly inhospitable and harsh place, it was only in the mid-19th century that its borders were truly defined and its people and history recorded.