YANGON, July 6 (Reuters) - UNESCO inscribed Myanmar’s ancient capital of Bagan as a World Heritage Site on Saturday, nearly a quarter of a century after the complex of Buddhist temples was first ...

YANGON (Reuters) - UNESCO inscribed Myanmar’s ancient capital of Bagan as a World Heritage Site on Saturday, nearly a quarter of a century after the complex of Buddhist temples was first nominated for ...

Myanmar is known as the Land of the Golden Pagoda. It is famous for its gold-covered temples like the Shwedagon Pagoda in ...

This is the Bagan Archaeological Zone in central Myanmar. Here, in an area of about 16 square miles, more than 4,450 temples, mostly Buddhist, were constructed during a religious frenzy that lasted ...

The domes and spires of Myanmar's temple city of Bagan mark an island of calm in the country's raging civil war, but with conflict keeping tourists away locals are struggling to make ends meet. The ...

MANDALAY, Myanmar (Reuters) - Thousands of Buddhist monks gathered in Myanmar's second largest city on Sunday for an event partly organised by a scandal-hit Thai temple whose abbot is wanted for ...

BAGAN, Myanmar >> It was a time of conquest and conversions. Above all, it was a time of construction, on a scale never seen before. Over 250 years, from the 11th century onwards, the rulers of Bagan ...

A squad of armed police patrol Myanmar's sacred site of Bagan under the cover of night, taking on plunderers snatching relics from temples forsaken by tourists due to coronavirus restrictions. Each ...

BANGKOK (AP) — A study issued Tuesday by researchers collecting evidence of war crimes in Myanmar supported reports that air strikes by the military government damaged churches in the ...

A squad of armed police patrol Myanmar's sacred site of Bagan under the cover of night, taking on plunderers snatching relics from temples forsaken by tourists due to coronavirus restrictions. Already ...

BAGAN, Myanmar (AFP) — A squad of gun-toting police patrol Myanmar's sacred site of Bagan under the cover of night, taking on plunderers snatching relics from temples forsaken by tourists due to ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BANGKOK (AP) — A study issued Tuesday by ...