New additions to the Online Lecture Library (March 2021 update)
Five new lectures in the Online Lecture Library this month, mostly on Angkor and one on Saivite worship in Vietnam.
Tag: Angkor (kingdom)
Referring to the Khmer Empire that controlled much of Mainland Southeast Asia from the 9th-15th centuries, centred around modern-day Cambodia. Khmer: អង្គរ
See also: Angkor Archaeological Park, Siem Reap
Prasat Thnom Pdey in Kampong Chhnang province
via Koh Santepheap Dauly, 08 February 2021: A Khmer article about Prasat Thnom Pdey in Kampong Chhnang province, and a ...
Kork Chak temple towers restored
via Khmer Times, 11 February 2021: The Apsara Authority reports the successful restoration of Angkorian towers at Kork Chak temple ...
The Seductive Appeal of Urban Catastrophe
via The Atlantic, 31 January 2021: The author of the article also wrote Four Lost Cities: A Secret History of ...
Gatty Lecture: Cambodia’s Angkor Temples as a Military Prize
Readers may be interested in this talk by John Burgess hosted by the Cornell Southeast Asia Program on Feb 26. ...
Contextualising the return of the Latchford collection to Cambodia
Two more reflective pieces about the repatriation of Khmer sculpture from indicted antiquities smuggler Douglas Latchford were published over the ...
[Paper] Semiotic ideologies of stone in Andean and Khmer political landscapes
via World Archaeology, 29 January 2021: An interesting paper in World Archaeology comparing Khmer lingas with Inca stone wak'as.
Over 100 antiquities from Latchford’s collection to return home, courtesy of his daughter
via New York Times, 29 January 2021: In a new turn of events to the Douglas Latchford story, the daughter ...
[Paper] An integrated palaeoenvironmental record of Early Modern occupancy and land use within Angkor Thom, Angkor
via Quaternary Science Reviews, 1 January 2021: Paper by Hall et al. on the land use history of Angkor Thom ...
Old Khmer dictionary nearly done
via Phnom Penh Post, 21 December 2020: The Royal Academy of Cambodia will publish a dictionary of Old Khmer from ...
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