What is the oldest city in Myanmar?
Pyu city-states
Many Pyu settlements have been found across Upper Burma. They include Wati (an urban area west of Maingmaw), Ayadawkye Ywa in the Mu valley, west of Halin and south of a recently discovered Bronze Age site called Nyaunggan, and several others in Myinmu township, which controls the mouth of the Mu river.[25] A small but politically significant Pyu site is Tagaung (တကောင်း [dəɡáʊɴ]) in northern Burma (about 200-km north of Mandalay) where Pyu artefacts including funerary urns have been excavated. The significance is due to the fact that the Burmese chronicles identify Tagaung as the home of the first Burmese kingdom.[28] Aside from Beikthano and Sri Ksetra, most Pyu sites have not seen extensive or any excavation.[25]