Magwe (The Typical Myanmar City)

Around Magwe
Beikthano (around Magwe): This ancient Pyu site is located near Taungdwingyi, a small town 82km southeast of Magwe. Strong interests in ruins are piles of bricks, melting city walls and a few temple foundations. Excavations here have uncovered beads, terracotta votives, stone and metal art objects, skeleton remains, stucco-relief fragments, silver coins, pot shards and burial urns. The design of these items and their Pyu inscriptions indicate links with the Pyu principalities of Thayekhittaya and Hanlin, but little else is known about the city-state. Some of the artifacts are displayed in a museum in Taungdwingyi.

Beikthano, 3rd-century origins, spread over 9 sq km.
It was destroyed by fire in the 4th to 5th century. The old palace site sits a little northwest of the center of the rectangle formed by the city walls. Just west of the old palace, a large pond called Ingyikan, an ancient reservoir still used by the villagers of Inywagyi. Less than 500m from the northeastern corner of the old city is a famous stupa called Shweyaunhlyan Paya.

Hanlin
An ancient site where Pyu culture flourished as early as the 2nd century A.D. It is located 17 km southeast of Shwebo. The object of antiquarian gold, silver, bronze, utensils, mirrors, coins and ornaments which are usually melted down. Another interesting factor that prevailed at Hanlin indicates the practice of burial of corporeal remains as also burial of cremated remains in urns was in vogue. The brick-walled city complex is two miles long and a mile wide.