- Five Minutes Before the Discovery of Ban Chiang painting by Ardeth Anderson, Ban Chiang Project Illustrator Welcome to the Ban Chiang project ... W hile walking through the village of Ban Chiang in northeast Thailand in 1966, Stephen Young tripped on a kapok tree root, fell headlong, and launched one of the major archaeological discoveries of the 20th century. After finding himself on the ground ...www.upenn.edu/museum/Research/banchiang.html