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Gold and moonstone ring, Khmer (Cambodia), 9th-15th century

from Sotheby's

Interrogation room, Tuol Sleng, 2005

The Angkor Wat is easily one of the grandest works of art ever created, truly a wonder of the world!

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As civilization marches ever onwards, many ancient traditions and crafts have been lost to time, but some still survive. Here are 11 ancient crafts still being practiced (and sold) today.

Further reading:

Hyperallergic: Looted 10th-century Cambodian Statue Is Going Home, July 22, 2021

Hyperallergic: Art Dealer Used Offshore Accounts to Trade Looted Antiquities, Pandora Papers Say, October4, 2021

Hyperallergic: After Pandora Papers Revelations, Denver Art Museum Will Restitute Four Looted Artifacts to Cambodia, October 18, 2021

Hyperallergic: US Returns 30 Artifacts Stolen From Cambodia, August 10, 2022

Hyperallergic: Opinion: Cambodia’s Stolen Treasures Must Be Returned to Where They Belong, September 6, 2022

learning about henry kissinger death, and my own ignorance about the depth of this war criminal is alot

especially when hes responsible for 150,000~ Cambodian civilian deaths

Literally as the daughter of Cambodian refugees its really crazy to read this and see that America's red scare killed so many people. The "effort" to ensure communism doesnt spread in SE Asia, and made it worse and made tons of those countries anti-american

"In the year of the Rabbit, the second year of the reign of King Suryavarman, he sent an embassy to the king of the country of Chola, Rajendra Chola, requesting his help to put down a rebellion in the country. The king of Chola sent his son with an army to help the king of Cambodia, and the rebellion was put down."

Cambodian Chronicles

khmer wise i have NO fucking clue--it's the farthest away from china on the mainland though so that's probably a reason that it isn't as influenced by the various chinese cultures. it DID get travelled to by china and we know this because that is the only record we have of what most believe is early cambodia, called funan, and it was made clear that even back then it was a very indian-influenced country. it's also likely that people just. Traveled A Lot. se asia is SO BIG but everyone in those countries intermingled and migrated between each other and likely continue to do so now--so i am guessing it was just a lot of migrating & trade overseas AND just. india getting to cambodia first lmao. hinduism & buddhism are both kind of foundations of cambodian culture in a sense

ooooh thats so interesting wtf??? thats hella cool that our cultures intersect so much i'm definitely going to do research on this brb-

If you’re from the government, my mother was born in Vietnam. If you’re here for the truth, my mother was born in Cambodia. When the Khmer Rouge took over, my mother was twelve. She and her family escaped to Saigon on foot. Originally from Svay Rieng, a province bordering southern Vietnam, my mother’s family knew Vietnamese naturally. When Saigon fell, they too went to Thailand. They lied and claimed to be Vietnamese. They stayed in the refugee camps for Vietnamese people. They knew how Thailand viewed Cambodians. How they treated Cambodians. My mother became a trickster through the art of survival. It was easy for her family to lie about their names with no papers. And they faced no trouble for lacking them. They were Vietnamese, of course.

In my parents’ Cambodia, no records exist to prove someone’s existence. “You’re alive, you’re living, that is good enough,” my father nonchalantly states, “If you die, you’re gone, back to the ground.” Paper will never prove a life to me—I know my ancestors’ existence through scriptless stories, spoken word by spoken word, like the tale of my family’s forest that no longer exists. If a tree falls in the forest, the forest will feel it. The body decays and the tree becomes part of the forest again, back to the ground. It does not turn to paper.

  —  Forest (April Lim)

Gold ring with blue glass gem, Khmer, 1st-8th century AD

from Sotheby's

Carving detail, Tonle Bati, 2000

Books of 2023

Book 36 of 2023

Title: Alone in the Valley: A Soldier's Journey in the Vietnam War Authors: George R. Lanigan ISBN: 9781518825378 Tags: AUS ADF AA Australian Army, AUS ADF AA SAS Special Air Service (ASAS), AUS ADF Australian Defence Force, AUS Australia, B-52 Stratofortress, Bolivia, Buddhism (Religion), C-119 Flying Box Car, C-123 Provider, Catholic, Che Guevara, Cold War (1946-1991), HUN Hungarian Revolution of 1956, HUN Hungary, KHM Cambodia, KHM Cambodian Army (Vietnam War), KHM Cambodian Civil War (1967-1975), KHM Dr Son Ngoc Thanh, KHM FANK Khmer Army / Forces Armees Nationals Khmeres (1970-1975) (Cambodian Civil War), KHM General Lon Nol, KHM Khmer Rouge, KHM Khmer Serei (Cambodia Civil War), KHM Prince Norodom Sihanouk, M-113 APC, Medevac helicopter, Nungs, OV-10 Bronco, PAN Chagres River, PAN Colon, PAN Panama, PAN USA Fort Sherman, PAN USA Fort Sherman - Jungle Operations Training Center, PAN USAF Howard Air Force Base, POW, Rangers, SpecOps, Tamara Bunker Bider (East German Guerilla/KGB), U-10 Helio Courier, US AK Alaska, US AK ALCAN highway, US AK Delta Junction, US AK Gulkana Glacier, US CIA Central Intelligence Agency, US George Peppard (Actor), US Lodge Act, US Martha Raye (Actress), US Medal Of Honor, US OH Kent State University, US OH Kent State University Shootings (1970) (Vietnam War), US OH Ohio, US President Richard M. 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Description: In 1968, George Lanigan leaves the University of Maryland and sets off on the journey of his life. He volunteers to serve his country in the Vietnam War and enlists in the army where he becomes an elite Special Forces advisor in a top-secret program. The United States is clandestinely training the Cambodian Army, Forces Armees Nationales Khmeres, and Lanigan is at the heart of the mission. In this personal memoir, LTC George R. Lanigan, USA (Retired), adapts his forty-year-old letters and correspondence to his parents into an emotionally compelling and suspenseful narrative that relates his daily life of survival and political tension. It's an inside, firsthand look at a rare, and previously classified, Vietnam War experience. But its scope reaches beyond the war itself and illuminates the realities soldiers face returning home, building a life, and even visiting war zones four decades later. Its openness and honesty will resonate with war veterans, their friends and family members, those suffering post-traumatic stress disorder, and people of all ages who are interested in American history. Readers will learn about war life, a volatile political environment, and how personal experiences weave together to create the person one eventually becomes.

1970 Cambodian campaign

United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong. Thirteen major operations were conducted by the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) between 29 April and 22 July and by U.S. forces between 1 May and 30 June 1970.

In this week’s video, we are in Siem Reap, Cambodia trying local food.