Before Christ (BC)
Archipelagos finds of fossils and the remain of ancient people excavated in Bac Son Grotto in Lang Son province as well as artefacts believed to belong to the Stone Age and excavated at Nui Do ( Do Mountain) in Thanh Hoa province have shown that human life has been established in Vietnam for hundreds of thousands of years. Thus, Vietnam is considered to be among the first to be habituated in the world.