A tomb dating back to 100 B.C. – 200 B.C. was discovered in Ciputra, in ${bigcity_Hanoi:"Hanoi"}'s Dong Ngac Commune.

This official statement is according to Nguyen Lan Cuong, Associate Professor and Deputy Chief of the Vietnamese Association of Archaeology. The tomb was unearthed by chance by two building workers working in the area on April 1.

They found the tomb two meters below the ground and immediately reported their discovery to the local authorities. When archaeologists started excavating the site, they dug another tomb, a smaller one dating back to the 4th-6th century. Several days of digging into the area unearthed even more artifacts, including earthenware bowls, dishes, jars and pots. The tombs were made of brick, with unbelievably no cement whatsoever.

The bricks in the big tombs had round and lozenge designs, while the smaller tombs had fishbone-shaped carving patterns. According to Cuong, the bricks of the tombs bore ornate pictograms which were believed to represent the builder’s name. Moreover, according to him, the research on the tombs will help them learn and understand more about the period, the tomb-building technique, and the life of the people at that time.

Excavation of the site will continue up to the future for more discoveries and knowledge, but Cuong doubts they will ever find any human remains as they would have been overly, if not completely, decayed by the time they would have discovered