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Md. Abdus Samad Mondal is an eminent archeologist, inscriptionist, historian, comparative theologist and former Deputy Director at the Varendra Research Museum, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. He started his professional career at the Library of the University of Rajshahi as a Bibliography and Reference Assistant in 1976. Due to his enormous enthusiasm on archeology, immediately he began his career at the Varendra Research Museum, University of Rajshahi as a Collector of Artifects in 1977. Later he joined as an Archeological Officer at the same Museum in 1991. Then he promoted as an Assistant Director in 1995 and a Deputy Director in 2003, respectively at that Museum. He also served as the Director (acting) of Shahid Smriti Songrahashala, University of Rajshahi. Before his retirement in 2015, he involved to contribute himself for collecting about 21 thousand artifects and references for the Varendra Research Museum, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh. He was awarded a honourary fellowship by Bangla Academy, Bangladesh in 2009 for collection and preservation of artifects. He also received the Best Alumnus honourary memorabilia from the Rajshahi University Alumni Association in 2013, Vocational award 2019-2020 from Rotary Club of Metropolitan of Rajshahi, Honourary Crest by Pradipto Shahittasor, Mohanpur, Rajshahi in 2012 and Khetlal Sangitaloya, Joypurhat in 2016. Abdus Samad has been appeared in a special and popular magazine programme “Ettadi” on Bangladesh Television (BTV) in 2009 August episode, where he has been showed special honour and promoted his career long experiences over the programme. Different daily newspapers and weekly magazines have been published numerous reports on him and his career experience. Abdus Samad was born on 1 July 1947, in a small village of Kanaipukur, Khetlal, Joypurhat, Bangladesh. He is elder son of Late Moulovi Haresh Uddin Mondal Mozaddedi and Late Mst. Amena Khatun. Abdus Samad got married Mohsena Begum in 1972; they have two daughters and two sons. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts (Honour’s) degree in History from Govt. Azizul Haque College, Bogra in 1970 and Master of Arts in History and in Islamic History and Culture from University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh in 1972 and 1975, respectively. He is well-skilled in writing and reading of Arabic, Urdu and Persian calligraphy, and also capable to decode ancient inscriptions and monetary inscriptions, and extraordinary skills on wood carving arts. He also accustomed to work on image, design, map, landscape and handworks. He has enormous language proficiencies, especially well proficient in Bangla, English, Urdu, Arabic, and common knowledge in Hindi, Persian, Sanskrit and Gujarati, and capable to study in other six more languages. He established a personal and very rich library at his home. He also collected a lot of booklets, books, rural verse, motto, ancient poem, mantra tantra, wedding song, historical photographs, historical unpublished stories, reports and unknown information, and a huge collection of stamps. He performed as an Imam of Eidgah, taught and trained to imam at Imam Training Centre, visited to Saudi Arabia, Yemen and India, and visited there historical and archeological sites and landmarks. He also arranged two exhibitions of artifects and references at the University of Rajshahi in his early career.