Paharpur is a small village 5 km west of jamalganj in greater Rajshahi district. Here the remains of the largest known monastery south of the Himalayas have been excavated. This 7th century archaeological find coves an area of about 27 acres of land. The architecture of the pyramid like cruciform temple had its similarity in the contemporary architecture of Southeast Asia, especially Burma and Java. A site-museum built in 1956-57 houses a representative collection of objects recovered from Paharpur. The excavated finds have also been preserved at the Varendra Research Museum at Rajshahi.

Mahasthangarh, the oldest archaeological site in Bangladesh, is on the western bank of river Karatoa, 18 km north of Bogra town. It can easily be reached as it is on the Bogra-Rangpur highway. Several isolated mounds surround the fortified city site, which is held to be great sancity by the Hindus. Every year around mid-April and once every twelve years in December thousands of Hindu devotees gather at the site for a bathing ritual in the river. A wide variety of antiquities, ranging from terra-cotta objects to old ornaments and coins, can be seen at the site museum.

About 8 km to the west of Comilla town lies a range of low hills known as Mainamati-Lalmai ridge which is dotted with more than 50 ancient Buddhist settlements of the 8th to the 12th century AD. Almost in the middle of the hill range is Salban Vihara consisting of 115 cells built around a spacious courtyard with a cruciform temple in the center. About 5 km north of Salban Bihara is Kutila Mura which is a picturesque relic of a unique Buddhist establishment. Here three stupas representing the Buddhist trinity or three jewels-Buddha, Dharma and Sangha- are seen side by side. Charpatra Mura is an isolated small oblong shrine situated about 2.5 km Northwest of the Kutila Mura stupas. The Mainamati site museum has a rich and varied collection of copper plates, gold and silver coins and 12th century bronze objects.

The most ornate among the mediaeval temples of Bangladesh is the one at Kantanagar near Dinajpur town. Built in 1752 under the patronage of Maharaja Pran Nath of Dinajpur, it was originally a navaratna temple, crowned with four richly ornamental corner towers on two storeys and a central one over the third storey. These ornate towers collapsed during an earthquake towards the end of the 19th century. The monument is still regarded as the finest examples of its type in terra-cotta built by local artisans.