Pyu cities archaeological investigations

Record summary

Archaeological work at Pyu urban centers such as Sri Ksetra, Beikthano and Halin continued or intensified during the 1950s and 1960s. Excavators documented brick city walls, monasteries, reliquaries, inscriptions, burial evidence and planned water systems, helping establish the first-millennium Pyu cultural sequence. These sites matter for comparing archaeological urbanism with Chinese and South Asian textual references to early Myanmar polities. Chronology, inter-site relationships and the degree of Indian cultural influence remain areas where field reports and later radiocarbon programs are essential.