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 ...

Behind the temple ruins of this ancient Myanmar city, lie tales of drama and inspiration Over 2,200 Buddhist ruins vie for attention in the fields of Myanmar’s ancient city of Bagan. Each seems to ...

On the banks of the Irrawaddy River, 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 ...

What I did today: Toured Bagan, the 20-square-mile 11th-century temple complex. There are some real beauties among the 2,200 remaining structures (there were originally some 7,000, but many have been ...

BAGAN, Myanmar (AP) — 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 ...

Entering a golden age a thousand years ago, Myanmar’s Bagan empire was home to dazzling structures that attracted pilgrims for centuries. Pagodas, topped with finials known as hti, create the thousand ...

The Bagan Archaeological Zone stands in central Myanmar as one of the most extraordinary ancient landscapes in Southeast Asia. Once the cosmopolitan heart of the Kingdom of Pagan, it became the first ...

BAGAN, Myanmar — Well before dawn tourists begin climbing the steep steps of an ancient Buddhist temple, their cameras at the ready to capture first light over the remains of Bagan. Subscribe to read ...