XIENGKHOANG - PLAIN OF JARS

While there are many theories, nobody really knows why hundreds of huge stone jars are scattered across several sites on a barren Laotian plain. Carved from solid rock, most of these containers weigh from 600kg to one tonne apiece; the largest weighs six tonnes. The jars are said to be 2,000 years old but again, nobody knows for sure. Were they sarcophagi, water jars, rice stores' Scientists continue to debate this intriguing find; other visitors just marvel at these mysterious relics.
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