Nearly 200 historic Buddhist temples in the ancient city of Bagan were damaged by an earthquake. The 6.8 magnitude quake shook buildings across Myanmar, with tremors felt as far away as Bangladesh ...

BAGAN, MYANMAR—There are some 3,000 temples, monasteries, and pagodas ranging from the ninth to thirteenth centuries in the ancient Buddhist city of Bagan. In 1975, while the country was ruled ...

On the banks of the Irrawaddy River, more than 3,000 temples stretch across a 30-square-mile plain in Bagan, Myanmar (formerly Burma). Most were constructed between 1057 and 1287 during a building ...

Bagan is more than a travel destination — it’s a living monument to a glorious past, where over 2,000 ancient temples, pagodas, and stupas rise from the plains of central Myanmar in haunting ...

Pagodas are seen in the ancient city of Bagan, Myanmar, July 5, 2019. Myanmar is campaigning for Bagan, an ancient city in the central part of the country, to be included in the 2019 UNESCO World ...

several hundred miles north of Yangon in Myanmar, lies Bagan — a once secret and all-but-abandoned city, dedicated to Buddha. Covering an area of 40 miles are endless temples and stupas in varying ...

Myanmar’s government has banned tourists from climbing any ancient monuments ... 11th to 13th centuries, the city had served as the capital of the Kingdom of Bagan, the first dynasty to unify ...

Managing change means many things here in Myanmar, certainly political reform and equity for ethnic groups top the list. But here in Bagan is another challenge.

AS DAWN breaks over the pagoda-studded city of Bagan ... over what was once the ancient capital of Burma. Much has changed in the Southeast Asian nation, now called Myanmar.