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Provides information on the Mingun pagoda, Asia's greatest brick monument, in Burma. Historical background of the pagoda; Details on the idea about the brick monument published by Henry Yule of Great Britain; Artifacts found inside the pagoda; Witnesses of the pagoda's construction.

Reports on the discovery of tiny Buddha statues by monks while clearing land next to a pagoda destroyed in the 1970s by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. Description of the buddhas; Suspicions of archaeologists on the age of the statues; Security set up at the site to thwart looters.