Historic artefacts returned to Vietnam from the US


Some of the returned artefacts.

HANOI (Vietnam News/Asia News Network): Ten artefacts, the earliest dating back to the Dong Son civilisation (BC 1,000 – AD 1st century), were handed to the Vietnam National Museum of History on Friday (Nov 18).

The artefacts include a stone axe of the Post Neolithic Era (BC 4,500-3,500), three bronze axes and one ceramic saucepan of Dong Son civilisation; three stone crocodile sculptures of AD 1st – 2nd century and two bronze pipes from the 17th-18th century.

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