Two-ton, 1,000 year old stone 'jars of the dead' mystery deepens

The discovery of 137 new stone 'jars of the dead' that date back more than a thousand years ago has deepened Laos' abiding archaeological enigma.Exactly how the jars were used is unknown, however it has been suggested that they served as 'burial urns' for storing human remains — while local myths claim they were goblets once used by a drunk horde of giants.

Too bad it was found. Will now be trashed by tourists. We hold nothing sacred anymore.

580000 missions 2 million plus tons of bombs, to destroy this valley and everything in it

US government dropped so many bombs the locals use (UXO) unexploded ordnance for home decorations

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Deut 2:20-21 That was also accounted a land of giants: giants dwelled therein old time; and the Ammonites called them Zamzummims

Gen 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came into the daughters of men and they bore children to them the same became mighty men which were of old men of renown. Num 13:33 .. and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers 👀

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Two-ton, 1,000 year old stone 'jars of the dead' mystery deepensArchaeologists from the Australian National University and colleagues have catalogued 137 new jars, found across 15 freshly-identified sites, in remote and mountainous forest. Civilizations which destroy the nature; were also destroyed by nature used to be a lake that would fill in the wet season and empty in the dry season. It’s emptied since the last ice age. So those people migrated to lower elevations. If you go to the quarry site, jars with even as much as a crack were abandoned. Rain water collectors for potable water. Large Jars are still used in Cambodia’s countryside made from concrete now. The jars in Laos are all positioned at a higher elevation because the Phonsavan valley ...
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Two-ton, 1,000 year old stone 'jars of the dead' mystery deepensArchaeologists from the Australian National University and colleagues have catalogued 137 new jars, found across 15 freshly-identified sites, in remote and mountainous forest. Space aliens? Lesen will betreuen im pfluch
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