Walled Pyu cities with water management
Ciudades pyu amuralladas con gestión del agua
- Date
- c. 200 BCE-900 CE · confidence low
- Place
- Sri Ksetra (Hmawza), Pyay, Bago Region, Myanmar
- Credited to
- Pyu people
- Field
- Tools
⚠️ Disputed: the sources disagree.
What it is
Brick-built cities with circular or rectangular walls, moats, reservoirs and canals, such as Halin, Beikthano and Sri Ksetra, in the central Irrawaddy plain. They are Burma's first cities and the basis of Bagan's later urbanism.
The chronology of the cities is debated: Halin dates from c. 200 BC, Beikthano to the 1st-5th centuries and Sri Ksetra to the 5th-9th centuries; the central date is an approximation for the group.
What it led to
- Bagan's urbanism and irrigation
- spread of Buddhism and Indian scripts in Burma
- World Heritage status of the Pyu cities (2014)