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The prehistory of Burma (Myanmar) spanned hundreds of millennia to about 200 BCE. Archaeological evidence shows that the Homo erectus had lived in the region now known as Burma as early as 750,000 years ago, and the Homo sapiens about 11,000 BCE, in a Stone Age culture called the Anyathian .
Those Bagan Burmese people of central Burma had Theravada Buddhism spreading from Mons. In the next decade, Burmese or Myanmar language was gradually derived from Sanskrit, Pali, Pyu and Mon languages. The evidence of the inscriptions, Luce [32] warns us, shows that the Buddhism of Pagan 'was mixed up with Hindu Brahmanic cults, Vaisnavism in ...
Hanlin (also known as Halingyi, Halin and Halim) is a village near Shwebo in the Sagaing Division of Myanmar. In the era of the Pyu city-states it was a city of considerable significance, possibly a local capital replacing Sri Ksetra. Today the modest village is noted for its hot springs and archaeological sites.
The Burmese people felt that U Thant was denied a state funeral that he deserved as a statesman of international stature because of his association with U Nu. On 23 March 1976, over 100 students were arrested for holding a peaceful ceremony ( Hmaing yabyei ) to mark the centenary of the birth of Thakin Kodaw Hmaing who was the greatest Burmese ...
Founded in 1952, the five-storey museum has an extensive collection of ancient artifacts, ornaments, work of art, inscriptions and historic memorabilia, related to history, culture and civilization of Burmese people. [1] The main attraction of the museum is the only surviving original Lion Throne of the Burmese monarchs. There are more than ...
The Pyu city-states (Burmese: ပျူ မြို့ပြ နိုင်ငံများ) were a group of city-states that existed from about the 2nd century BCE to the mid-11th century in present-day Upper Myanmar (Burma).
A trove of snake fossils dating to about 6,000 years ago were found in the Zuojiang River Basin.
The Indochinese province includes northern Thailand, southern China, Myanmar, Laos, and Cambodia. The Sundaic province includes southern Thailand, Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, and Borneo. These two regions are divided by the climatic, zoological, and environmental patterns in which it implicates a different set of mammals and plants. [7]