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monstersandcritics.com – Phnom Penh – Road workers uncovered a treasure trove of ancient artefacts 10 years ago at Phum Snay in western Cambodia. Among the finds were jewellery, ceramic pottery and even human bones.
But shortly after news of the find got out, looters moved in. Within a year, Phum Snay had been stripped bare and its archaeological worth destroyed.
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Maybe you enjoyed the wallpaper that I post last month: Beautiful Photo of Angkor Wat
This could be the wallpaper for March, from the same talent khmer4life for sharing
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Thes photos was taken by Artie Ng. Find hereafter the most beautiful photos from Cambodia you haven’t seen. It might take sometime for photo loading and I guess this is the longer post ever made on khmerbird.
I am very appreciate the work of Artie Ng. I think now he is very busy with his work and life. Thank a lot to him for these beautiful photos of Cambodia.
You can also download the zip file to get all these photos in high format of 1024×840 px. Follow the link at the bottom of the post.
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gadling.com – I was alone, deep in the Cambodian jungle, flanked by the scattered ruins of ancient Khmer temples. My ears tickled with the cackle distant bird calls and buzzing cicadas. My shirt clung to my skin with a thick layer of sweat and ocher-hued dust. Suddenly, I heard movement to my right behind a wall. What was it? An ancient spirit of temples? A fearsome jungle cat waiting to pounce?
My muscles tensed and I stood waiting for the apparition to appear – until a flag-waving tour group emerged from around the corner. It turns out I wasn’t as alone in the jungle as I previously thought.
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A visitor to Angkor Wat rests by one of the so-called library structures in the temple complex/Basil Childers for The New York Times
JUST after Christmas in 1859, the French explorer Henri Mouhot left Bangkok to explore the uncharted regions of Indochina.
It took him a year of hacking through brush and fending off leopards, leeches and wild elephants before he arrived at Angkor Wat, the jungle-smothered complex of temples deep inside the kingdom of Cambodia.
Less than two years later, he died of malaria.
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l'Exposition Coloniale Internationale de Paris
The country which is today called Cambodia is only a small fraction of the vast Khmer Empire that controlled much of Indo-China from the ninth to the 13th century AD. At its height, the Khmer Empire consisted of today’s Cambodia, Laos, most of southern Vietnam and Thailand, as well as some of the Malay peninsula.
The word “Angkor” is derived Sanskrit, an ancient Indian language, of “Nagara” which means “City”. Angkor Wat literally means “City of Temple” and Angkor Thom “The Magnificent City”.
No doubts, the ancient Khmers were great masters of stone carving. As we can see today the unarguable evidences of various Angkor temples lying on the vast plain of Siemreap, or even beyond its present-day border to the Preah Vihear at Dangrek Mountain, Phnomrung and Phimai in Thailand and Wat Phu in Laos.
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This section as intended as a guide for visiting the monuments at Angkor.
It can be either read in advance of a visit or afterwards to reinforce the experience, or used at the sites to enable the visitor to be an active spectator.
Historical quotes from early visitors to Angkor are included where appropriate to try to capture the spirit of its past glory.
Legends and symbolism are also included whenever feasible to give the visitor additional background for a better appreciation of Angkor.
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have you done any sport lately ? hum i confess that it has been quite long time that i don’t do any sport …
too busy with works and blogging 
since i am in Siem Reap right now, i want to let everybody knows that Angkor Wat half marathon 2009 will take place on 6th December.
find more information and you can do the registration online by going to Angkor Wat International Half Marathon 2009 Official Website
if you think your prefer the bike race, which i did actually few year back, it was funny. they also this year organize the bike race just one day before the half marathon, on the 5 Dec 2009.
find more about Angkor Wat bike race this year at 2009 Angkor Wat Bike Race and Rally
See you all in Siem Reap.
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Angkor Wat
how did the Khmer people build the Angkor Wat and other temples? how could those beautiful temples possibly exist on earth? is it a dream or something?
you are not the first who feel that way. you can’t believe your eyes, you try hard to imagine and go back into 12th century.
i think you will stand there, at least few minutes or it would take hours and days to understand or at least find something logical to answer how Khmer people built those great temples.
it’s the mystery and magic.
you can’t imagine either how come the great nation felt down, abandoned the city, and move from one place to another. the temple was once hidden in the jungle until Henri Mahout, the French traveler, discovered the Angkor Wat in 1860.
i found a great video shooting in 1930s, thank to those people that keep this video available, which will give you some ideas about Cambodian life in the old day and the beauty of Angkor Wat. in this footage as well, you will find also the Bokator (Pradal Serey) and the Khmer dance, played on the ground just in front of Angkor Wat.
the narration was great told the real beauty of Khmer people and its temples. it make me proud, think and do a lot of reflections to Cambodia today. i hope we are now gather together and look into a future where we will rebuild our country to the next level.
i hope this video would help you to have a wonderful moment with Khmer people in 1930s and i dedicate this video especially to Khmer people around the world.
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