Jamal Garhai is an ancient site located 13 kilometers from Mardan city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Research says it was a Buddhist monastery from the first till the fifth century AD at a time when Buddhism flourished in this part of the Indian subcontinent.

This site attracts many researchers from national universities and also tourists from all around the globe. Since its a little far from main Mardan, the ride gets a bit tricky. Different projects are under way to protect the site from being unearthed as it is believed that in the past, numerous parts of the site went missing.

The ruins of Jamal Garhi are believed to have been first discovered by British archaeologist Sir Alexander Cunningham in 1848.

In 2012, archaeological excavations at the site which were funded by Government of Japan and UNESCO lead to the discovery of coins ageing back to 158-195 AD that supposedly belonged to King Huvisha. These excavations were conducted by a team of students from the Hazara University. A Buddha statue, a terracotta plate with Kharoshti script and five rooms from a two-storey house were also discovered along with traces of a lake.

Some inscriptions found in Jamal Garhi are now displayed at the Peshawar museum.