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Detailed explanation-1: -The Plain of Jars, located on a plateau in central Laos, gets its name from more than 2, 100 tubular-shaped megalithic stone jars used for funerary practices in the Iron Age.

Detailed explanation-2: -Known as the Plain of Jars, this more than 2, 500-year-old collection of giant stone vessels is one of Eastern Asia’s most important archaeological sites. Thousands of jars stretch across rice paddies, hills, and forests in the Xieng Khouang Province, a war-scarred region in the northeast part of the country.

Detailed explanation-3: -As local Laotian legend would have it, the jars were created by Khun Cheung, an ancient king of giants who lived in the highlands. It is said that Cheung, after fighting a long and victorious battle, created the jars in order to brew huge amounts of celebratory lao lao rice wine.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Plain of Jars (Lao: Thong Hai Hin, [tʰōŋ hǎj hǐn]) is a megalithic archaeological landscape in Laos. It consists of thousands of stone jars scattered around the upland valleys and the lower foothills of the central plain of the Xiangkhoang Plateau.

Detailed explanation-5: -Since their discovery in the 1930s, the mysterious collections of giant stone jars scattered throughout central Laos have remained one of the great prehistoric puzzles of south-east (SE) Asia. It is thought that the jars represent the mortuary remains of an extensive and powerful Iron Age culture.