Vành Village Cave and Trại Hamlet Cave in Lạc Sơn District, both listed as special national heritage sites, are central to understanding the Mường culture.
The country''s leading archaeologists met over the
weekend during a 3-day conference held in Hue City, which included
announcements describing new archaeological discoveries.
Archeologists from the Viet Nam Institute of Archaeology have
discovered numerous valuable relics in the Vu Lam royal step-over
place, located within the Trang An scenic landscape complex.
An archeological team from Viet Nam Archaeology
Institute found five stone axes believed to come from the 3,000-year-old
Sa Huynh Culture at a Khue Bac communal house garden in the central
city.
Viet Nam should train more young people in underwater archaeology
research, said Mark Staniforth from La Trobe University of Australia at
the International Symposium on Underwater Archaeology in Viet Nam and
Southeast Asia, held in Quang Ngai Province yesterday.
Scientists from the Viet Nam Archaeology Institute have found more
traces of early human settlement in the Dong Van karst plateau in
northern Ha Giang Province.
The Institute of Archaeology and Ha Giang Province''s
Museum have uncovered remnants of the 600-year-old Nam Dau Pagoda in
Nam Thanh Village, in Vi Xuyen district''s Ngoc Linh Commune.
The archaeologists from the Viet Nam Archaeology Institute have
unearthed traces of a kitchen at the Tan Long Ha Military Post in the
central province of Quang Ngai.
Six corpses, dating to 6,000 years ago, have been unearthed in a cave in
Ngan Son District of northern Bac Kan Province, according to scientists
from the Viet Nam Archaeology Institute.
The Thang Long royal citadel relics require further excavations, which
may take one to two more centuries, according to Prof Tong Trung Tin,
director of Viet Nam Archaeology Institute.
The lacquer painting Giong (St Giong) by Vietnamese master painter
Nguyen Tu Nghiem is on display at Cambridge University''s Museum of
Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA).
An education programme I''m an Archaeologist organised by the Thang Long –
Ha Noi Heritage Conservation Centre under the support of the UNESCO
office in Ha Noi will take place at the Archaeology Site at 18 Hoang
Dieu Street every Saturday regularly.
