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Buddhist Temples, Bagan, Myanmar (Burma), 1984

Photograph by James L. Stanfield

A view from atop Mingalazedi Pagoda shows sprawling Bagan, Myanmar (Burma), a pilgrimage center covered with hundreds of ancient Buddhist shrines. The monuments, most of which were erected between the 11th and 14th centuries, cover a 20-square-mile (50-square-kilometer) area along the east bank of the Irrawaddy River.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Time and Again in Burma," July 1984, National Geographic magazine)