Lop Buri’s strategic significance examined

via Bangkok Post, 26 January 2022: Recent seminar on Promtin Tai, an archaeological site in Lopburi province.

A key archaeological site in Lop Buri’s Khok Samrong district, Promtin town epitomises the significance of the central province and its uniqueness as a place where human settlement has continued, from the pre-historic era, for thousands of years. The town is to be the highlight of a seminar to take place on Jan 30, from 9am-12.30pm in Phra Phetracha Room, at Thepsastri Rajabhat University in Lop Buri.

The seminar, being organised by the university in conjunction with the Club for Preservation of Antiquities, Ancient Monuments and the Environment of Lop Buri Province, with support from Krungthep Insurance Foundation, will be opened by Higher Education Science Research and Innovation Minister Anek Laothamatas, who will give a keynote speech on Suvarnabhumi studies. An overview of the Promtin archaeological site will be given by Asst Assoc Prof Tanik Lerchanrit, a lecturer at Silpakorn University’s Archaeology Faculty.

The academic noted that Lop Buri’s fat plains topology is ideal for agriculture, and an abundance in natural resources make it an ideal-yet-rare location for human settlement that went undisrupted for centuries. More importantly, some archaeological finds like ancient inscriptions indicate that Lop Buri used to be a major place where Buddhism was actively spread, in addition to a trading site where goods like mineral products had been exchanged with foreign traders, especially merchants from the subcontinent, during ancient times.

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