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For an American visitor, it can be tempting to think of Bagan mainly as an archaeological site—a Southeast Asian answer to Angkor or a distant cousin to Mesa Verde. Yet Bagan is also a living ...
News Myanmar » Ayeyarwady » Culture: Bagan and its plain of brick temples
Bagan is a sacred landscape in central Myanmar, spread along a bend in the Ayeyarwady River. Its brick temples, stupas, monasteries and inscriptions make the plain a dense historical landscape, not a ...
News Myanmar » Ayeyarwady » Culture: Ayeyarwady River and Myanmar Economy
WWF report on risks and opportunities from perspective of people living and working in the basin Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady River is both unique and special. It is one of the largest free-flowing rivers in ...
News Myanmar » Ayeyarwady » Culture: Same and different: A new species of pit viper from Myanmar
Finding and describing new species can be a tricky endeavor. Scientists typically look for distinctive characters that can differentiate one species from another. However, variation is a continuum ...
News Myanmar » Ayeyarwady » Culture: “Baffling” new snake species in Myanmar looks like multiple species at once
Scientists have uncovered a fascinating new species of pit viper in Myanmar that seems to blur the very definition of what a species is. This snake, now named the Ayeyarwady pit viper, puzzled ...