Places Science Can't Explain
Friday, December 29, 2023
Few visitors find their way to the remote plains of Xiangkhoang Plateau in Laos. | Together with 1440 |
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| But if you do venture into this arid region of Southeast Asia, you'll find thousands of enormous, ancient stone jars dotting the landscape. They sit scattered across the land like a giant's forgotten crockery. The urns date back to the Iron Age, when their makers used a combination of clay, dung, sandstone, and sugar to create them before baking them in huge kilns. What's most baffling about the jars, though, is how they got to the plateau in the first place. Some of the giant jars weigh as much as 10 tons and measure nearly 10 feet tall. So how were the jars transported to the empty landscape from the quarry, which is more than six miles away? |
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