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Helping to preserve artifacts, some potentially 2,000 years old, was an irresistible privilege. Since 2016, an Australian-Lao team led by Louise Shewan, Dougald O'Reilly and Thonglith Luangkhoth has ...
News Laos » Xieng Khouang » Culture: Laos jars are slowly revealing their secrets
In the rugged province of Xieng Khoaung in upper northern Laos are scattered more than 2,000 large carved stone jars. They vary in size, with the biggest standing at just over 2.5 meters tall and ...
News Laos » Xieng Khouang » Culture: In Laos, a giant stone jar finally yields its secret, with bones of 37 people inside
For decades, archaeologists have tried to explain the thousands of huge stone vessels spread across Laos' Plain of Jars in the highlands. A major clue has now come from one of the largest examples: ...
News Laos » Xieng Khouang » Culture: The ‘Forgotten Land’ of Laos: The Mysterious Plain of Jars
Laos became known as the “Forgotten Land” in the years following the Vietnam War. Located between its more popular neighbors—Vietnam, Thailand, and Cambodia—Laos has been relatively isolated from the ...
News Laos » Xieng Khouang » Culture: Plain of Jars, Laos’ stone vessels of the Xieng Khouang plateau
On the Xieng Khouang plateau near Phonsavan, the Plain of Jars scatters ancient stone vessels across the landscape, turning a Lao highland into an open-air mystery. Moderner Architektur-Render zeigt ...
News Laos » Xieng Khouang » Culture: Laos’ Perplexing Plain of Jars
Scattered across 15,000 square kilometers of rolling green hills, rice paddies, and forests of Xieng Khouang Province in Laos are thousands of mysterious jars. Some are only a few feet high, while ...
News Laos » Xieng Khouang » Culture: Russia to Build Airport in Laos, Train Armed Forces in Sign of Strengthening Military Ties
Russian troops have been clearing an area of around 500 hectares of unexploded ordnance, or UXO, in Laos’ Xieng Khouang province with plans to build a new airport and military facility as part of an ...