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New research published in PLOS One in March shows that these jars were used as burial sites. And while the jars themselves could be more than 3,000 years old, analysis of human remains suggest ...

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The stone jars, which are up to 10-feet tall, dot the landscape in Xieng Khouang Province in central Laos.There are more than 2,100 of the tubular megalithic jars in the area, according to UNESCO ...

Archaeologists get an opportunity to investigate the 'Plain of Jars' and figure out when they were placed by an ancient culture.

A collection of more than 130 jars used to store the remains of the dead were discovered in 2019 Credit: PJARP. They are believed to have been used by remote tribes during ritualistic burials.

ROHIM: Each burial have four canopic jars-- four organs of the deceased. NARRATOR: Each jar is topped with a different symbolic sculpture. The heads represent the four sons of the god Horus.