The tomb of Jam Nido at Makli Hills, Thatta, Sindh, Pakistan - March 2008 This is the tomb of Jam Nido, a Summa ruler who reigned from 1461-1508. One of the largest necropolises in the world, with a diameter of approximately 8 kilometers, Makli Hill is supposed to be the burial place of some 125,000 Sufi saints. It is located on the outskirts of Thatta, the capital of lower Sind until the seventeenth century, in what is the southeastern province of present-day Pakistan. [1] Legends abound about its inception, but it is generally believed that the cemetery grew around the shrine of the fourteenth-century Sufi, Hamad Jamali. The tombs and gravestones spread over the cemetery are material documents marking the social and political history of Sind. Imperial mausoleums are divided into two major groups, those from the Samma (1352–1520) and Tarkhan 3 January 2014
The Tomb Of Jam Nido
The tomb of Jam Nido at Makli Hills, Thatta, Sindh, Pakistan - March 2008 This is the tomb of Jam Nido, a Summa ruler who reigned from 1461-1508. One of the largest necropolises in the world, with a diameter of approximately 8 kilometers, Makli Hill is supposed to be the burial place of some 125,000 Sufi saints. It is located on the outskirts of Thatta, the capital of lower Sind until the seventeenth century, in what is the southeastern province of present-day Pakistan. [1] Legends abound about its inception, but it is generally believed that the cemetery grew around the shrine of the fourteenth-century Sufi, Hamad Jamali. The tombs and gravestones spread over the cemetery are material documents marking the social and political history of Sind. Imperial mausoleums are divided into two major groups, those from the Samma (1352–1520) and Tarkhan 
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