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Visitors follow their guide on a tour of Site 1 of the Plain of Jars near Phonsavan in northern Laos.(Jerry Redfern) I’m following Belgian archaeologist Julie Van Den Bergh around Laos’ remote ...
The mysterious Plain of Jars in northern Laos — a landscape ... They determined that one of the stone jars at Site 1 had been brought from a sandstone quarry 5 miles (8 kilometers) away.
The mysterious ‘Plain of Jars’ in Laos has long ... A 2016 excavation of an area known as “site 1” containing nearly 400 jars, however, has shed new light on the use of mysterious structures.
The Plain of Jars, located in the central Lao province of ... The latest field work uncovered an ancient burial ground in a region known as Site 1 [One] in Xieng Khouang Province, with more ...
The virtual-reality project combines aerial video captured by a drone with geophysical data and records of archaeological excavations at "Site 1" on the Plain of Jars, near the town of Phonsavan ...
Archaeologists have finally dated one of the arcane scattered jar sites known as the Plain of Jars in Laos ... earth beneath one of the jars at Site 1 gives notion that the jar was placed at ...
The Plain of Jars, located on a plateau in central Laos ... such as the construction of new houses and Buddhist temple outside the buffer zone for Site 1; poorly sited roads/tracks within several ...
The Plain of Jars extends across the Xiangkhoang Plateau, made up of over 100 sites containing anywhere from a few to a few hundred jars. The jars themselves are hewn from stone, stand between 1 ...
The 15 sites where the "jars of the dead" were found seem to be outside the Plain of Jars, also known as the Xieng Khouang plateau in Laos. The plateau is home to 90 sites with thousands of large ...
Archaeology has provided the world with several spellbinding revelations. A big aspect of archaeology is being able to properly investigate the acquired objects. However, in some cases, real-life ...
The mysterious ‘Plain of Jars’ in Laos has long ... A 2016 excavation of an area known as “site 1” containing nearly 400 jars, however, has shed new light on the use of mysterious structures.