Angkor Wat
23 Jun, 2022
950 History of Asia
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the largest and arguably the most astonishing religious structure on Earth, built for Suryavarman II in the 12th Century in modern-day Cambodia. It is said to have more stone in it than the Great Pyramid of Giza, and much of the surface is intricately carved and remarkably well preserved. For the last 900 years Angkor Wat has been a centre of religion, whether Hinduism, Buddhism or Animism or a combination of those, and a source of wonder to Cambodians and visitors from around the world.
Guests
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Piphal Heng No other episodes
Postdoctoral scholar at the Cotsen Institute and the Programme for Early Modern Southeast Asia at UCLA -
Ashley Thompson No other episodes
Hiram W Woodward Chair of Southeast Asian Art at SOAS University of London -
Simon Warrack No other episodes
A stone conservator who has worked extensively at Angkor Wat
Reading list
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Special Section: new discoveries at Angkor Wat, Angkor
R. Brotherson ( 2015) -
The Evolution of Agro-Urbanism: A Case Study from Angkor, Cambodia
Alison K. Carter and others ( 2021) -
The Khmer Did Not Live by Rice Alone: Archaeobotanical Investigations at Angkor Wat and Ta Prohm
Cristina Cobo Castillo and others ( 2020) -
Angkor and the Khmer Civilization
Michael D. Coe and Damian Evans (Thames & Hudson, 2018) Google Books → -
Angkor: An Introduction
George Coedes (Oxford University Press, 1963) Google Books → -
A Record of Cambodia's Land and Customs
Zhou Daguan (trans. Solang Uk and Beling Uk) (New Generation Publishing, 2010) -
Cambodge: The Cultivation of a Nation, 1860-1945
Penny Edwards (University of Hawai'i Press, 2008) Google Books → -
Angkor Wat: A Transcultural History of Heritage
M. Falser (De Gruyter, 2020) Google Books → -
Ancient Angkor
Michael Freeman and Claude Jacques (River Books, 2009) Google Books → -
Centralized Power/Decentralized Production? Angkorian Stoneware and the Southern Production Complex of Cheung Ek, Cambodia
Peter Grave and others ( 2021) -
Form, Structure and Long-Term Angkorian Urbanism: A View from the Kok Phnov Site (9th-10th Century CE)
Piphal Heng and others ( 2022) -
Temples of Cambodia: The Heart of Angkor
Helen Ibbotson Jessup (River Books, 2011) Google Books → -
Of Gods, Kings and Men: The Reliefs of Angkor Wat
Thomas S. Maxwell (Silkworm Books, 2007) Google Books → -
Angkor: Exploring Cambodia's Sacred City
Theresa McCullough, Stephen A. Murphy, Pierre Baptiste, and Thierry Zephir (eds.) (Asian Civilisations Museum, 2018) Google Books → -
Engendering the Buddhist State: Territory, Sovereignty and Sexual Difference in the Inventions of Angkor
Ashley Thompson (Routledge, 2016) Google Books → -
Sacred Angkor: Carved Reliefs Of Angkor Wat
Vittorio Roveda (River Books, 2001) Google Books →
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