Archaeological Researches on the Excavated Finds at the Ancient City of Wadee

Abstract

One of the most exciting recent discoveries in the archaeologically rich terrain of Myanmar has been the resurrection of a hitherto unfamiliar ancient site of human habitation— Wadee (၀တး). The following pages are intended to introduce readers to its varied remains, what has thus far been unearthed regarding its past, and how Wadee fi ts into the broader parameters of Myanmar’s pre-historic period, not only in relationship to other Pyu (ပ) sites, but also to earlier periods, including what has been labeled the Samon culture (စမ ႈယဥေကးမႈ ). The ancient city of Wadee is located at N 21°23′07.6′′ and E 95°43′02.3′′ near Phayagyi Village (ဘ၇ားၾကးရာ), Nahtogyi Township (ႏြားထးၾကးၿမနယ), Myingyan District (ၿမငးၿခခရင), Mandalay Division (မႏေလးတငး) in Central Myanmar. It is about 8 kilometers to the southeast of Nahtogyi and 3.22 kilometers south from the road that runs between Myitt ha (ၿမစသား) and Nahtogyi. Amongst the ancient Pyu cities with circular walls, Srikshetra (Thayekhitt aya) (သေရေခတရာ), Maingmaw (Pinle), (မငးေမာ), and Vesali (ေ၀သာလ) (Yakhine) (ရခင) are the largest. Wadee is smaller than these but bigger than the ancient city of Thagara (သာဂရ) in Dawe (ထား၀ယ) located in Myanmar’s far south.