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At the Vienthong primary school in Laos’ Xieng Khouang province, six students take out hand puppets made from clothing scraps and colored felt. Their audience — a class of around 15 children ages 3 to ...
News Laos » Xieng Khouang » Life: 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 » Life: 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 » Life: Archaeologists discover remains of 37 people, including toddlers, inside an ancient giant stone jar in Laos; how Indian travellers can explore the mysterious Plain of Jars
UNESCO’s World Heritage Centre recognises the Megalithic Jar Sites in Xiengkhuang – Plain of Jars as a World Heritage property. It identifies over 2,100 such jars spread across the wider landscape and ...
News Laos » Xieng Khouang » Life: 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 » Life: Inside the Laos villages where people build homes, canoes, and tools out of unexploded bombs left over from the Vietnam War
You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. Decades after the Vietnam War ended, there are around 80 million unexploded bombs left in Laos. Despite the danger they ...
News Laos » Xieng Khouang » Life: Tourism development near Laos’ Plain of Jars to be studied
A private company will study ways to develop northern Laos’ Plain of Jars archaeological site for tourism, according to an agreement signed with Xieng Khouang provincial officials. The Plain of Jars ...
News Laos » Xieng Khouang » Life: Archaeologists found 37 people buried in one giant 'death jar'
A newly excavated megalithic container holding skeletal remains in Laos may help finally solve the mystery of the so-called "Plain of Jars." The discovery of bones and other artifacts inside a giant ...
News Laos » Xieng Khouang » Life: 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 ...