The largest ancient Cham tower was discovered

On August 22, after nearly a month of re-excavating the Cham Pa ruins in Da Nang, for the first time, the archaeological team discovered a central hole in the center of the tower with many strange artifacts that were nearly intact.

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Talking to PV, Mr. Vo Van Thang, Director of Cham Sculpture Museum (Da Nang City), said that this hole is 4.25m square, 2m deep and made of Cham bricks. The pit is filled with about 30m ^{3 of} sand and gravel.

The central pit contains many strange objects that have just been discovered. (Photo: Tu Anh)

After scooping all the sand and gravel out of the hole, the archaeological team continued to find 8 concave plots divided into 8 directions, located at 4 corners and edges. In each concave cell, a square brick is placed on a round pebble stone. In the middle of the pit there was a row of pebbles and quartz arranged in a semicircle.

Mr. Thang and his colleagues predict that this series of pebbles was previously built in a circle but due to various reasons, so far deformed."According to the beliefs of the Cham people, there are 8 gods in 8 directions, so it is possible that this is a spiritual belief that speaks to guard gods , " Thang said.

Regarding the scale of the newly discovered architecture, the archaeological delegation stated that this is likely the foundation of a Cham tower architecture as many excavations earlier. However, according to Mr. Thang, if based on such a massive foundation, there used to be a huge Cham tower, it can be said to be the largest tower ever, showing the existence of a center. Cham religion since the 12th century.

Cham Pa temple temple is located in Phong Le village (Hoa Tho Dong ward, Cam Le ward, Da Nang city) excavated in mid-2011, in order to serve the conservation, education and tourism. Here, archaeologists discovered a large area of ​​Cham Pa temple temple about 1,000 years ago.

Experts are continuing to decipher the artifacts found to plan for further excavations.