Lost To History: Myanmar Heritage Falls Victim To Quake

Source: International Business Times

The massive March 28 quake damaged thousands of monasteries and pagodas in Myanmar AFP When a massive earthquake hit Myanmar last month, centuries of sacred history tumbled down -- towering Buddha idols, sky-scraping stupas and the pure-white pagoda where 83-year-old Khin Sein has prayed for most of her life. The magnitude-7. 7 tremor razed Nagayon Pagoda in the central city of Mandalay, Myanmar's last royal capital where ancient heritage was decimated in the disaster which claimed more than 3,700 lives.