 Professor Ahmad Hasan Dani ( Urdu : احمد حسن دانی ) FRAS , SI , HI ( 20 June 1920 – 26 January 2009 ) , was a Pakistani intellectual , archaeologist , historian , and linguist . He was among the foremost authorities on Central Asian and South Asian archaeology and history . He introduced archaeology as a discipline in higher education in Pakistan , and was the founder of the Department of Archaeology at Quaid-i-Azam University , Islamabad . He was also the founder of the National Museum of Pakistan , and was the first to introduce the discipline of archaeology in the curriculum of the University of Punjab