VietNamNet Bridge – 1,000 bronze items of the Dong Son civilization are now exhibited at the History and Revolution Museum of Thua Thien-Hue province.


This is the largest exhibition so far in this central province, held by the Vietnam Center for Culture and Art
 Exhibition, and the Thua Thien-Hue Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.






Bronze drums which were cast in the 1st-3rd centuries B.C.






Reliefs on a drum.






Kitchen tools.






Pots and kettles.





Bronze bells.






Bronze axe-head.






Bronze spear-heads.





Iron swords with bronze hilts.






Items that were buried with dead people.





The exhibition will last until April 20.



The Dong Son culture was a prehistoric Bronze Age centered in the Red River Delta of northern Vietnam. The Dong Son people were skilled at cultivating rice, keeping buffaloes and pigs, fishing and also sailing with long dug-out canoes. They also were skilled bronze casters, as can be seen in the famous Đông Sơn drums, which have been found widely in Southeast Asia and the Southern China.

VNE