The author is the Co-Director, UNESCO/JFIT Excavations, Former Director-General of Archaeology, Government of Nepal; former Joint-Secretary of the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Government of Nepal; former Executive Director of the Pashupati Area Development Trust (Monument Zone within the Kathmandu Valley World Heritage Site); Member of ICOMOS Nepal; UNESCO Consultant; Advisor to the Oriental Cultural Heritage Sites Protection Alliance; and Honorary Research Fellow, Durham University, UK.
Introduction 35 The Rediscovery of Lumbini 36 The beginning of archaeological investigations 37 Rediscoveries within the Maya Devi Temple and Lumbini 37 Our new sequence from the Temple site has thus provided three major discoveries 39 Conclusion 40 Acknowledgments 41
