The intact jars are the size of a small, slim person. The area was used as a burial ground before the Christian conversion, Lagang says.

If burial activities took place between the 9th and 13th centuries C.E., then the 'Plain of Jars' becomes the earliest known instance of mortuary practices ever uncovered by archaeologists worldwide.

The jars are part of a whole landscape of megaliths carved by an ancient Indian culture which—so far—archaeologists know little about. Enormous burial urns ...

An ancient burial site has been discovered at the mysterious Plain of Jars, an archaeological site in remote central Laos littered with thousands of stone vessels.

An ancient burial site, including an oddly shaped quartz stone covering the face of one of the newly uncovered human skeletons, has been discovered at the mysterious Plain of Jars, an archaeological ...

The 10-plus-ton jars, which sit on burial grounds, were hand-carved. But given the limited tools available 2,500 years ago—their approximate age—researchers can't figure out how the builders ...

The megalithic jar sites in Northern Laos comprise one to three-metre-tall carved stone jars, weighing up to 20 tonnes, dotted across the landscape, appearing alone or in groups of up to several ...

Archaeologists have discovered a 4,000-year-old burial in Jerusalem and inside they found a jar full of the remains of decapitated toads.

Researchers from the University of Melbourne who were excavating near Ban Nahoung in Laos found 18 individuals inside burial jars, more than 60 per cent of which were infants or babies.

An ancient burial site, including an oddly shaped quartz stone covering the face of one of the newly uncovered human skeletons, has been discovered at the mysterious Plain of Jars, an archaeological ...