Khmer Empire

This category includes several resources referring to the Khmer empire, including archaeological sites, histories and detailed reports on various elements of the society.

Khmer Empire - Southeastern Civilization of Angkor Wat
The Khmer empire was an important civilization located in southeast Asia, which lasted for 500 years and controlled a vast area including all of what is today Cambodia, and parts of Laos, Vietnam and Thailand.

Funan State
Funan is the name for a southeast Asian civilization which was given to it by two Chinese travelers, who in AD 250 visited a country ruled by a king in a palace with a walled settlement.

Guide to Angkor - The Khmer Empire in Southeast Asia
The Angkor Civilization (or Khmer Empire) is the name given to an important civilization of southeast Asia, including all of Cambodia and southeastern Thailand and northern Vietnam, with its classic period dated roughly between 800 to 1300 AD

Collapse of Angkor - What Caused the End of the Khmer Empire
But after several hundred years of prosperity and growth, the system abruptly collapsed about 1431. Why that happened has always been a puzzle.

Timeline and King List of the Khmer Empire
A chronology of the growth and collapse of the Khmer Empire, and a list of the important kings during the classic period.

Khmer Empire Water Management System
The extensive Khmer water management system allowed Angkor to flourish for six centuries despite the difficulties of maintaining a state level society in the face of successive dry and monsoon regions.

The Dawn of Angkor - Cemetery Studies at Ban Non Wat, Thailand
Ban Non Wat is a cemetery site located in Thailand, that has been the focus of five years of research by Charles Higham of the University of Otago, New Zealand. Burials dated to the Neolithic, Bronze, and Iron ages have been recovered at Ban Non Wat, showing clear evidence of the rise of complexity at the site, and providing implications about the Angkor Civlization

Ban Non Wat: Neolithic through Iron Age Cemetery in Thailand
A description of Ban Non Wat, a large prehistoric site located in the upper Mun Valley of Northeast Thailand, from excavator Charles Higham. Like many hundreds of other settlements in this region, it was encircled by multiple moats and banks during the Iron Age: but its history and development reveal the roots of the Angkor civilization

Angkor Wat (Cambodia)
Angkor Wat is a temple complex and capital city of the Angkor (or Khmer) civilization

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