Chief arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown is writing from Myanmar (formerly Burma) as part of a new series “Culture at Risk.” Learn more about why Brown is there in his reflections “Is culture at risk in ...

The ancient Buddhist kingdom of Bagan in central Myanmar has been named the second greatest city in the world by the readers of Wanderlust Travel Magazine. The famous complex of 2,000 temples and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Myanmar took stock of toppled spires and crumbling temple walls in the ancient capital Bagan Thursday after a powerful earthquake hit the country, killing three and damaging the top tourist ...

YANGON, Myanmar—A powerful earthquake shook Myanmar on Wednesday, killing at least three people and damaging more than 100 ancient Buddhist pagodas in the former capital of Bagan, a major tourist site ...

Reporting from BANGKOK — A powerful magnitude 6.8 earthquake shook central Myanmar on Wednesday, damaging scores of ancient Buddhist pagodas in the former capital of Bagan, a major tourist attraction, ...

Bangkok, Aug 29 (efe_epa).Bangkok, Aug 29 (efe_epa). — The number of pagodas and stupas damaged in the archeological complex of Bagan in central Myanmar, in the 6.8 magnitude earthquake that shook the ...

Editor’s note: This is the fifth article in a series of seven. To read the other installments, visit http://www.vaildaily.com. Bagan is one of those mystical ...

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 ...

Clouds of dust settled over the damaged pagodas as officials took stock of the destruction caused by the magnitude-6.8 quake, which struck just south of the archeological site on Wednesday, killing ...