To celebrate the 310th anniversary of the exploration of the south (1698-2008), the Vietnam History Museum in HCMC, in cooperation with museums and collectors in the south, on December 10 opened a special exhibition of antiques from southern rivers.
Nearly 400 objects including jewelry, handicrafts, household utensils and tools are displayed in the exhibition. The items are made from wood, stone, soil, gold and silver.
Antiques are displayed in the exhibition
The antiquities, collected by 8 museums and 12 collectors, were picked from the beds of major southern rivers such as the Sai Gon, Dong Nai, Vam Co, Tien and Hau.
Antiquities in southern rivers help us imagine a part of the region’s history. They reveal how much people’s lives depended on the water. They built their houses on stilts on river banks. Rivers were their roads of trade and also the places where famous water battles took place.
These objects from more than 13 centuries ago provide evidence of development and trading of the old southern people. Many of them were not only made in
The exhibition features the oldest traces of human beings in southern
The antiquities reveal that the first inhabitants along the Sai Gon and Vam Co river basins appeared 3,000 to 3,500 years ago. And the
Through the exhibition, visitors can learn interesting knowledge about various historical periods of the southern region.
Reported by N.T.N
