Bau Truc: The Soul of Ancient Southeast Asian Pottery

VHO - Bau Truc pottery village, one of the oldest pottery villages in Southeast Asia, is becoming a vivid example of heritage preservation where the community is the main creator and practitioner of the heritage, placed at the center. The Bau Truc pottery art of the Cham people was officially inscribed by UNESCO on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguard on November 29, 2022.

Báo Văn Hóa•09/01/2026

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