The Plain of Jars in the Xieng Khouang plain of Laos is one of the most enigmatic sights on Earth. The unusual scattering of thousands of megalithic jars across nearly one hundred sites deep in the mountains of northern Laos has fascinated archaeologists and scientists ever since their discovery in the 1930s.
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Scott Onstott is the creator of the Secrets In Plain Sight video series, an inspiring exploration of great art, architecture, and urban design unveiling the unlikely intersection of geometry, mysticism, physics, music, astronomy, and world history. Secrets In Plain Sight Volume 1 has more than 4 million views to date. Scott is the author of 11 exoteric books on architectural software and 4 esoteric books. He recently published Quantification, a book of color illustrations highlighting patterns in the Great Pyramid, the human body and in the Earth, which also reveals uncanny distances between sacred sites. Scott Onstott has a degree in Architecture and worked for a decade designing corporate interiors in San Francisco before becoming an independent teacher, author and filmmaker.
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