"The Plain of Jars, located on a plateau in central Laos, gets its name from more than 2,100 tubular-shaped megalithic stone jars used for funerary practices in the Iron Age. This serial site of 15 components contains large carved stone jars, stone discs, secondary burials, tombstones, quarries and funerary objects dating from 500 BCE to 500 CE. The jars and associated elements are the most prominent evidence of the Iron Age civilization that made and used them until it disappeared, around 500 CE."
Source: UNESCO World Heritage
Postcard 1
2019 UNESCO World Heritage of Plain of Jars, Laos. I visited Laos in February 2011 and sent this postcard home.
Postcard 2
Valley of the Jars in Laos - a tentative list of UNESCO World Heritage. Thanks to Zhimin of China.
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