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 ...

The bricklayers are paid $1.35 a day to rebuild the ancient ruin: a small, 13th Century temple reduced by time to little more than its foundation. But they have no training in repairing aged monuments ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As I rise from the ground in the basket of a hot-air balloon, dawn is breaking and the first of hundreds of ancient temples comes into view. Through the ...

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 ...

In this Tuesday, March 14, 2017 photo, hot air balloons are seen just after takeoff to fly over the ancient Myanmar city of Bagan. Balloon flights are a popular tourist activity in the city, which is ...

MANDALAY – Restoring ancient temples has its own politics. The Indians found this out through their restoration work at Angkor Wat in northwest Cambodia, which they initiated in the 1980s, motivated ...

Just hours after the devastating earthquake that hit central Italy this past Wednesday another powerful, unrelated, quake devastated central Myanmar, causing at least four deaths and damaging nearly ...

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 ...

A powerful 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck central Myanmar Wednesday, killing at least three people and damaging nearly 200 pagodas in the famous ancient capital of Bagan, officials said. The quake, ...

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 ...