![This week in Southeast Asian Archaeology: Prambanan gets some renewed attention, Phimai Black pottery surfaces at Mun Bon Dam, and I’m taking a short break next week.⠀
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The featured stories look at the new Indonesia–India conservation project at Prambanan, focusing on the temple complex’s ruined perwara shrines, and a striking Late Prehistoric find in northeast Thailand: a remarkably complete Phimai Black vessel discovered as water levels fell at Mun Bon Dam.⠀
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Temples, pottery, reservoirs, and a little scheduled rest. Back again on 27 July.⠀
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The featured stories look at the new Indonesia–India conservation project at Prambanan, focusing on the temple complex’s ruined perwara shrines, and a striking Late Prehistoric find in northeast Thailand: a remarkably complete Phimai Black vessel discovered as water levels fell at Mun Bon Dam.⠀
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Temples, pottery, reservoirs, and a little scheduled rest. Back again on 27 July.⠀
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Read this week’s newsletter: [link in bio]⠀
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#SoutheastAsianArchaeology #Archaeology #Heritage #Prambanan #Thailand #Indonesia #Cambodia #Vietnam #CulturalHeritage #Substack")
14 July 2007 (Thanh Nien News) – More news of Chinese Tang Dynasty coins unearthed in Vietnam, again in Quang Binh Province. Similar Tang Dynasty coins were found earlier last week by a rice farmer.
Ancient Chinese coins dug up in central Vietnam
Thousands of coins from China’s Tang Dynasty era, believed to date back to the 8th or 9th century, have been found in Vietnam’s central Quang Binh province.
Three refuse collectors found five jars July 11 containing the coins and weighing around 30 kilograms in Ham Ninh commune.
At the same place a week earlier a local farmer named Nguyen Duc Dung found a pot weighing 20 kilograms containing copper coins while digging on a rice paddy.
On all the coins one side has four Chinese characters while the other is plain.
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Read more about the Chinese coin finds in Vietnam.
