How is it that I’ve almost made it to 63 years of life without ever hearing about these “Jars of the Dead”?
It’s enormously morbid and fascinating, in an Anthropological way. The Pharaohs got pyramids, lined with gold and precious stones, while the poor got a big clay jar; one jar for an entire village in many cases.
“Between 1964 and 1973, the Plain of Jars was heavily bombed by the U.S. Air Force (see Secret War) operating against North Vietnamese and Pathet Lao communist forces. The U.S. Air Force dropped more bombs on Laos, primarily the Plain of Jars, than it dropped during the whole of World War II.”
From Wiki
You have heard of them before.
It was called the Plain of Jars, not the ‘jars of dead.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_of_Jars
This is an old, old thing.