Since the early history, Vietnam has three famous cultures known worldwide: Dong Son in the north, Sa Huynh in the center and Oc Eo in the south. Sa Huynh culture discovered a century ago attracted the attention of many domestic and foreign researchers.
  Right at this time, new discoveries related to Sa Huynh culture continue to be published, which confirms the richness and attraction of this culture. Ancient named after the place where archaeological relics were first discovered. Ms. Vi-sharp, a customs officer in Quang Ngai province at that time informed about the discovery of ceramic coffins in Sa Huynh salt lagoon, Duc Pho district, Quang Ngai province, in the journal of Far East Uncle Ho France in 1909 and became a landmark to discover Sa Huynh culture. Since then, nearly 80 relics of Sa Huynh culture have been discovered, dozens of points in Ha Tinh, Binh Dinh, Hue, Quang Ngai, Dong Nai, Khanh Hoa, Central Highlands ... excavated and confirmed. identify local sources, exchanges between Sa Huynh culture and famous contemporary cultures in Vietnam and East - South Asia. To introduce a part of the heritage of this famous culture, the Vietnam History Museum organizes a special exhibition: "Sa Huynh 100 years - discovery and research" with many selected collections discovered. , including the tomb collection jars are considered to be the most unique.

A prominent feature of Sa Huynh culture in the early Iron Age 2,500-2,000 years ago was a burial tomb. Burial jars are buried in clusters, often in coastal high dunes and rivers with burial forms: burial, cremation, cremation of children and symbolic graves. Sa Huynh jars come in a variety of sizes and designs, such as cylindrical jars, egg shaped jars, intermediate shaped cylinders and egg shaped jars, spherical jars, nested jars, ... Jars often have a conical lid truncated, near conical cone-shaped, spherical bottom, ... Jars are quite diverse, the largest jars have a height of 1.8 m, a diameter of 1m and most of them are under 1m high. , diameter 50 cm - 60 cm. In addition to the jars, Sa Huynh culture also has the type of earth tombs, pot tombs, but less common. The scale as well as the distribution of the tombs in Sa Huynh relics are also very different. The graves have hundreds of tombs such as in Thach Duc, Phu Khuong, Sa Huynh, Quang Ngai, the record is Con Rang relic (Thua Thien - Hue) discovered 207 jars and 6 burial graves on an excavated area of ​​2,200m2 . But there are also relics found only a few tombs. Inside the jars are burial objects including pottery, stone tools, iron tools, copper and jewelry, ... Especially the peach shaped burial jar was discovered at the end of 2008 at the site. Bai Com (Xuan Vien, Nghi Xuan, Ha Tinh) surprised many visitors. The jar appears at a depth of 0.38m, lying on its side in the direction of the west and the east, the mouth of the jar facing a dead-end hat with a dotted dot pattern, an engraved pattern, a shoulder with a diagonal decoration, a body with a decorative pattern rope. There were no burial items in the jars.

 Ironwork is a typical artifact of Sa Huynh culture. Iron burial objects are quite common in every tomb. Iron furniture is abundant in its type, style and uses. There are basically two groups of ironwork, manufacturing tools and weapons. Regarding common production tools are the type of iron axes curved body, knives, knives (machete), spearhead, spade, especially in the presence of iron hoes. At this early stage, this cultural people used stone tools such as hoes, axes, ... The hoe agriculture dominated the economic development of Sa Huynh residents from early to late. At the most prosperous stage of development, the introduction of ironwork created a major turning point in agricultural production of Sa Huynh residents. Weapons include the sword, dagger, spear, javelin, most have hilt or throat to look at the wooden handle. General, The brass metallurgy of Sa Huynh cultural residents is underdeveloped compared to Dong Son cultural residents, but the iron smelting technique of the Sa Huynh cultural residents is highly developed. Research shows that iron manufacturing is strongly developing. Sa Huynh iron map is made from iron smelted in manual furnaces by the method of reconstitution, iron is quite high quality, low in impurities, the fabrication technique is mainly hot forging.

Sa Huynh pottery also creates a unique identity for this famous culture, which is the crystallization of the creative labor process of indigenous residents with exquisite diverse shaped products. In addition to the ceramic coffins, there are various types associated with the daily life of people. Pot used for cooking, shaped spherical. Pot in the relics Sa Huynh has a large number, variety of designs, with two features: used in daily activities and used as burial objects. The jar belongs to the group of containers with a stand, quite popular and is decorated quite sophisticatedly by Sa Huynh residents, mainly convenience vessels, shown on the types: average body with a broken angle and a body with no broken angle. Plates / bowls, two of the same design, with a flared or cambered upper body, a shallow heart, and a high base that are most sophisticatedly decorated, are a tray. It is found primarily in the tombs, possibly in connection with rituals. In terms of structure, the stand is a bit like a stand or a ball, the mouth is wide or meniscus, in creating a "hollow" hollow. Thread plummeting: present in most excavation sites, with the shape of a cross-section, a rhombus, a shape of two truncated cones, trapezoidal, spherical and near spherical. Jewelry: Although it is not popular, it is also a unique feature that creates the characteristic of Sa Huynh culture with earrings, beads and chains.