Episode 49 - It's Never a Collapse: Angkor Wat

This week, Amber and Anna explore Angkor Wat, the legendary Cambodian temple complex. Who built it? What happened? Did the civilization collapse? (Spoiler: no.) Was it rediscovered after being forgotten for centuries? (Spoiler: also no.) Come for the history, stay for the alien spider beings!

Angkor Wat archaeological digs yield new clues to its civilization’s decline (The Conversation)

Angkor (UNESCO World Heritage)

Angkor Wat: an introduction (Antiquity)

The Angkorian Period (U.S. Library of Congress)

History of Angkor in a Nutshell (Angkot Wat Temple Guide)

Angkor Wat and Henri Mouhot (Zak Keith)

Henri Mouhot’s (almost forgotten) epigraphic notes (British Library)

The Legacy of Angkor (Cultural Survival)

"Discovering" Cambodia: Views of Angkor in French Colonial Cambodia (1863-1954) (Cornell Theses)

And for the weirder things:

“Mark Richards Revisited” (Knowledge Fight)

And check out Poltys mouhoti for some spider-based horror

Photo credit: Jean-Pierre Dalbéra, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.