plain of jars - phonsavan (laos) - 9 photos
Plain of Jars - Phonsavan (Laos).
Thousands of ancient stone jars lie scattered throughout a plain near the city of Phonsavan (Laos).
Archaeologists believe that the jars were used 1,500–2,000 years ago, by an ancient civilization whose culture is now totally unknown.
Anthropologists and archeologists think that the jars were funeral urns.
The Plain of Jars is littered with UXO (Unexploded bombs), in particular cluster munitions, the results of massive US bombardment during the Lao Civil War.
See more information about this place in this Wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_of_Jars .
Plain of Jars (Laos)
Plain of Jars (Laos)
Tourists Looking in Giant Stone Jar - Plain of Jars - Site 3 - Phonsavan (Laos)
Tourists Looking in Giant Stone Jar - Plain of Jars - Site 3 - Phonsavan (Laos)
Sabine Looking in Giant Stone Jars - Plain of Jars - Site 2 - Phonsavan (Laos)
Sabine Looking in Giant Stone Jars - Plain of Jars - Site 2 - Phonsavan (Laos)
Sabine Going inside Giant Stone Jars - Plain of Jars - Site 2 - Phonsavan (Laos)
Sabine Going inside Giant Stone Jars - Plain of Jars - Site 2 - Phonsavan (Laos)
Sabine in Giant Stone Jars - Plain of Jars - Site 2 - Phonsavan (Laos)
Sabine in Giant Stone Jars - Plain of Jars - Site 2 - Phonsavan (Laos)
Plain of Jars - Site 2 - Phonsavan (Laos) - Sabine Going inside Giant Stone Jars
Plain of Jars - Site 2 - Phonsavan (Laos) - Sabine Going inside Giant Stone Jars
Giant Stone Jars - Plain of Jars - Site 2 - Phonsavan (Laos)
Giant Stone Jars - Plain of Jars - Site 2 - Phonsavan (Laos)
Giant Stone Jars - Plain of Jars - Site 3 - Phonsavan (Laos)
Giant Stone Jars - Plain of Jars - Site 3 - Phonsavan (Laos)
Giant Stone Jars - Plain of Jars - Site 2 - Phonsavan (Laos)
Giant Stone Jars - Plain of Jars - Site 2 - Phonsavan (Laos)
Has anyone varified the theory of funeral urns by scraping for DNA trace, or mineral trace?
It is a shame how much history that war so often destroys.