Discovered by accident by Stephen Young in 1966, Ban Chiang is one of the most important prehistoric settlement so far discovered in South-east Asia. The site is best known for the beautiful pottery ...

So in an addendum to the man’s will, his final request was for all the Ban Chiang pottery to be returned to Thailand. “I have a moral obligation, and a fiduciary duty, to get these things home ...

Mr Young was not the first to discover Ban Chiang pottery. That honour belongs to the local doctor, Banlu Montripitak, who found three complete painted pots during the construction of his house ...

In 1966, a student found shards of pottery protruding from the ground quite by accident. Ban Chiang in North-east Thailand suddenly began to get worldwide attention. Major excavations were conducted ...

Last year, hundreds of pieces of Ban Chiang tools, beads, pottery and bronze items at the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, California, were returned to Thailand under a non-prosecution agreement ...

In 2014, the US government returned 554 ancient artifacts from Ban Chiang to Thailand after they were discovered in a 2008 raid on the Bowers Museum in Santa Ana, California.

Four pottery pieces, dozens of glass bracelets, earrings and some bronze tools were on display at the ceremony. All were stolen from Ban Chiang, Udon Thani, a World Heritage Site. The pieces date ...

Ancient DNA from archaeological sites in Southeast Asia, such as Thailand's World Heritage site Ban Chiang, has refined our understanding of how farmers and hunter-gatherers mixed and mingled ...

Vessel on pedestal foot; Northeast Thailand, Ban Chiang culture, late period, 300 BCE?200 CE; Earthenware with red pigment; Gift of Victor and Takako Hauge, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, S2004.24.