Megalithic Jar Sites in Xiengkhuang – Plain of Jars

The Plain of Jars, located on a plateau in central Laos, gets its name from more than 2,100 tubular-shaped megalithic stone jars used for funerary practices in the Iron Age. This serial site of 15 components contains large carved stone jars, stone discs, secondary burials, tombstones, quarries and funerary objects dating from 500 BCE to 500 CE. The jars and associated elements are the most prominent evidence of the Iron Age civilization that made and used them until it disappeared, around 500 CE.

 Lao People's Democratic Republic

N19 25 51.8 E103 9 8

Date of Inscription: 2019

Criteria: (iii)

Property : 174.56 ha

Buffer zone: 1,012.94 ha

Ref: 1587

Source: https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1587

Bagan

Lying on a bend of the Ayeyarwady River in the central plain of Myanmar, Bagan is a sacred landscape, featuring an exceptional range of Buddhist art and architecture. The site’s eight components include numerous temples, stupas, monasteries and places of pilgrimage, as well as archaeological remains, frescoes and sculptures. The property bears spectacular testimony to the peak of Bagan civilization (11th–13th centuries CE), when the site was the capital of a regional empire. This ensemble of monumental architecture reflects the strength of religious devotion of an early Buddhist empire.

 Myanmar

N21 8 56 E94 53 4

Date of Inscription: 2019

Criteria: (iii)(iv)(vi)

Property : 5,005.49 ha

Buffer zone: 18,146.83 ha

Ref: 1588

Source: https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1588