Laos News » Xieng Khouang News Laos » Xieng Khouang » Trade: Giant Stone Urns Hint at the Death Rites of a Lost People in Laos
Thousands of mysterious containers lie scattered across northern Laos. These “death jars” may have provided a form of communal interment, archaeologists reported.
News Laos » Xieng Khouang » Trade: Giant jars, ancient bells, buried bones and a mystery that endures
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 » Trade: Mystery of the ancient giant stone jars of Laos may have been solved
In central Laos, the landscape is littered with enormous stone jars, some 3 metres high, and we may be closer to understanding how and when they were used ...
News Laos » Xieng Khouang » Trade: Decades after Vietnam War, Laos grapples with unexploded bombs
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PHAXAY, XIENG KHUONG PROVINCE, LAOS - Almost half a century later, scars from the U.S. Air Force's bombings are still visible in ...
News Laos » Xieng Khouang » Trade: New findings in the Plain of Jars of Laos, the megalithic structures that still nobody knows when or by whom they were created
The name ‘Plain of Jars’ represents thousands of stone jars spread over upland Laos. Credit: Plain of Jars Research Project Since 2016 an archaeological team made up of researchers from Australia and ...