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The Plain of Jars
Across the misty plateaus of Xieng Khouang Province in Laos, thousands of massive stone jars lie scattered like the remnants of a forgotten civilization. Some stand upright, others are toppled and broken, but all are eerily silent, mysterious sentinels on a high plain that continues to defy easy explanation.
This is the Plain of Jars, one of Southeast Asia’s most enigmatic archaeological sites. First documented by French archaeologist Madeleine Colani in the 1930s, the jars, carved from solid rock, some weighing over 10 tonnes, are dated to around 500 BCE to 500 CE. Yet even after nearly a century of research, we still don’t know who made them, how they were transported, or most importantly……..why?
The most popular belief is they were used in funerary practices.
Some more unconventional beliefs range from giants to ancient aliens to secret CIA time experiments.
This is what we will endeavour to investigate here.
