Archaeologists record some 100 undiscovered temples in Kratie province

via Phnom Penh Post, 9 May 2019: Archaeologists in Cambodia add new sites to the national register through a survey of Kratie province.

Cambodian archaeologists have unearthed the remnants of nearly 100 previously undiscovered temples dating from the 6th and 7th centuries in Kratie province’s historical Samphu Borak area, former capital of the pre-Angkor Empire Chenla period.

Thuy Chanthourn, the deputy director of the Institute of Arts and Culture of the Royal Academy of Cambodia, said the remnants of the temples had not been recorded in earlier Cambodian or French archaeological studies, including Inventaire descriptif des monuments du Cambodge by E Lunet de Lajonquiere from 1902-11.

They had also not been registered in the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts’ list of ancient temples.

Source: Archaeologists unearth some 100 undiscovered temples, National, Phnom Penh Post