An overview of Viet Nam prehistory with timeline and images.
Dong Son bronze drum locations, construction processes, uses, the Ngoc Lu Drum, and bibliography.
Yahoo Group. The ancient Vietnamese Dong Son Culture had a great Bronze Age that coincided with the Han Chinese Empire.
From BBC, a massive archaeological find has delayed the construction of Vietnam's first ever purpose-built parliament house.
From VNA, discovery of mummified monks in the northern provinces of Bac Ninh and Ha Tay has amazed scientists and researchers alike, prompting them to study the secret technique that has kept these bodies intact.
From Vietnam News, archaeologists have uncovered artefacts in Cat Tien, in the Tay Nguyen province of Lam Dong, which reveal new information about the trade history between Viet Nam and countries as distant as the Middle East.
A bibliography on the Dong Son Bronze Age culture of Vietnam.
From VNS, skeletons thought to be from a civilisation that lived around Ha Long 4,000 years ago were uncovered by archaeologists excavating the Hon Hai–Co Tien cave, about 140km east of Ha Noi.
A team coordinated by Tura Beach archaeologist Dr Judith Cameron has discovered and preserved the oldest complete shroud found in Southeast Asia, dating back some 2,300 years to the Bronze Age Dongson culture.
The preliminary report of a team from the Vietnam Institute of Archaeology (VIA), digging since January at a temple dedicated to An Duong Vuong King, may confirm history books that the site dates back to the Tran dynasty.
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