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Archaeologists present new research on the Bayon

A team of Cambodian and Japanese archaeologists present their new findings from an excavation at the Bayon temple at Angkor Thom in a recent conference.

Artefacts unearthed at Bayon temple Phnom Penh Post, 09 June 2010

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The drains of the Bayon discovered

Archaeologists have discovered a drainage system for rainwater at the Bayon temple in Angkor Thom. photo credit: RightIndex

Bayon drainage system discovered Phnom Penh Post, 11 February 2010

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Wednesday Rojak #31

In this week’s rojak, we take you to the spectacular temples of Cambodia, Java and Thailand.

photo credit: kurvenalbn

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Wednesday Rojak #30

Another bumper edition of Wednesday Rojak – well, because I’ve been missing the previous week again. But this week is choc-full of posts from Angkor, Borobudur and other archaeology sites from Southeast Asia. Here they are in no particular order:

photo credit: soham_pablo

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If you missed Angkor Wat on tv…

If you missed the Angkor Wat edition of Digging for the Truth, it turns out that there are clips of the entire episode on YouTube! I caught it today at the morning repeat – it was pretty ok, covering the major monuments of Angkor, along with footage from the Greater Angkor Project and Cambodian Martial [...]

Recpaturing the silence of Angkor

A this travel piece on Angkor, covering Phnom Bakheng, Ta Prohm and the Bayon.

The last stand The Hindu, 17 February 2008

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Wednesday Rojak #18

In this edition of Rojak…

Johny Setiawan takes a walk through the Indonesian National Museum and reflects on the shared heritage of Malaysia and Indonesia. At Anthropology.net, we hear more about the recent discovery of the genetic mutation that might explain homo floresiensis. Monkeysmooth visits the heritage-endangered site of Ayutthaya. The Thai Art and Archaeology [...]

Decoding Hindu-Buddhist rivalry at Angkor

25 November 2007 (The Nation) – Anyone who’s visited Angkor will know that the architecture of the famous jungle buildings are remains of ancient Hindu and Buddhist temples. Angkor Wat, for example, was a temple to the god Vishnu, who presides over the sun and the western quadrant of the compass, while the Bayon of [...]

Wednesday Rojak #5

Hobbits! Hobbits! and more Hobbits! is the theme for this week’s Wednesday Rojak, which is not surprising since last week saw the release of a paper supporting the hobbit-is-not-human camp by describing the wrist bones of homo floresiensis as primitive, descending from an earlier hominin offshoot. [...]

Adventures in Angkor – Angkor Thom, the Royal City

Sorry for the belated post, folks! There was just so much to write about that filtering the pictures to publish took some extra time. In previous Adventures in Angkor we’ve visited the jungle temple Ta Prohm and ,of course, the famed temple Angkor Wat. The latter has become somewhat synonymous with the entire Angkor, and [...]