The Plain of Jars
500 BCE – 500 CE
Scattered across the Xieng Khouang Plateau of Laos are over 2,100 massive stone jars, some weighing up to 14 tonnes, arranged in clusters across 90 sites. They were carved from stone quarried up to 8 kilometres away and transported without wheels or draft animals. Their purpose is unknown. Local legend says they were used by a race of giants to brew rice wine. Archaeologists believe they were funerary urns — but no consensus exists.