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| yass | Dec 21 2011, 10:10 PM Post #1 |
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Hewn from rock, Archaeologists don't know what they were for or what civilization built them. Though they may have been used for various purposes through the ages their origins are unknown. It is estimated they could be over 2,000 (or according to one, 3,000) years old. There are thousands of them scattered around the Xieng Khouang plain in Laos, weighing up to 13 tons and are one to three meters in length (which is roughly a bit longer than one to three yards or inches less than three to 10 feet). There are said to be over 400 sites with these ancient and mysterious jars only two of which are open to the public due to having been cleared of hidden bombs. It is said that during the 60's and 70's, in a secret war, the US dropped more bombs in Laos than they did Germany and Japan during world war II. All of the bombs did not explode and there are allegedly over 250,000 booby-traps still buried in the ground with accidents still happening weekly. The locals say there was once an ancient race of Giants who lived in the area and say the Giants once drank water out of them. I read on one page that all of them were plain except one. There was no picture there but at another site I found a picture of one with a human figure on oy and no description otherwise. ![]() steps leading up to site 1 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/02/plain-of-jars-bombs-mystery-in-laos.html http://blog.hotelclub.com/plain-of-jars/ http://www.lonelyplanet.com/travelblogs/1330/46856/The+Plain+of+Jars?destId=356935 http://holeinthedonut.com/2011/06/06/plain-of-jars-phonsavan-laos/ |
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| slayingtheilluminati | Dec 22 2011, 01:05 PM Post #2 |
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great article, with so many of these sites for the ancient times and people still dont believe et's (helped) built this world... fuck them sucker ass troops for bombing the whole world 'usa' needs to be stopped!!! |
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| Petunia | Dec 22 2011, 06:50 PM Post #3 |
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Great find, yass. I love learning about stuff like this. |
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| epona | Dec 22 2011, 09:00 PM Post #4 |
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My feeling is that these are not jars at all. It would be ridiculous to think so; because if so, where are the other eating implements? Looks like this place is on a definite rise or hill up in a general area of gentle hills. I believe it is the remains of a temple site, with the rest of the temple probably made of wood, and the "jars" are rings put around wooden columns for frontage presentation. |
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| Petunia | Dec 22 2011, 10:59 PM Post #5 |
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Your post reminded me of the temple constructed of wood that was discovered near Stonehenge. If I recall correctly from the tv show I saw about it, it is thought that ancient wood temples are associated with the living and ancient stone temples are associated with the dead. It would be interesting if there were a temple made from both. Stonehenge Had Neighboring, Wooden Twin -- More to Come? "It will completely change the way we think about the Stonehenge landscape." James Owen in London for National Geographic News Published July 23, 2010 Britain's Stonehenge once had a long-lost twin just a stone's throw away from the prehistoric monument, archaeologists announced Thursday. (See pictures of the new Stonehenge discovery.) The discovery, made completely without digging, suggests that now solitary Stonehenge may have been surrounded by "satellite Stonehenges," archaeologists say. "This finding is remarkable," said survey-team leader Vince Gaffney, an archaeologist the University of Birmingham in the U.K. "It will completely change the way we think about the landscape around Stonehenge." Using the latest geophysical imaging technology, Gaffney's team captured digital impressions of the now buried remains of the newfound henge formation, just over half a mile (900 meters) from its world-famous neighbor. Measuring 82 feet (25 meters) wide, the circular feature had a segmented ditch dotted with 20 or so large holes—suspected to have been postholes for a timber, rather than stone, circle, the team says. (Also see "Wooden 'Stonehenge' Emerges From Prehistoric Ohio.") The circle's estimated date of 2,500 to 2,200 B.C. suggests "it was operating when Stonehenge was in its final and most dramatic form," Gaffney told National Geographic News (interactive Stonehenge time line). Currently the leading view is that the immediate area around Stonehenge was a sacred, off-limits area where only a select few, such as high priests or nobility, were allowed. (See "Stonehenge 'Hedge' Found, Shielded Secret Rituals?") "If [the newfound henge] was there at the same time, it demonstrates there was massively more activity going on in the landscape adjacent to Stonehenge," Gaffney said. That isn't to say Stonehenge was open to anybody, he added, "but we are saying there seems to be more activity inside that boundary. "Stonehenge," he added, "is one of the most studied monuments on Earth but this demonstrates that there is still much more to be found." (Related: "Stonehenge Was Cemetery First and Foremost, Study Says.") full article: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/07/100723-stonehenge-woodhenge-twin-timber-circle-gaffney-science/ |
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