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How Did the Mekong Delta Build a Civilization on Water? - Rethinking Funan and the Ancient Mekong Delta | Sleepy Facts About History
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Two thousand years ago, in a landscape where dry land was the exception and water the rule, communities in the Mekong Delta built a civilization on stilts, canals, and piled earth. They produced goods that reached from Gujarat to Rome without requiring those distant powers to know this place existed. This episode examines the archaeological site of Óc Eo in present-day southern Vietnam to understand how a challenging floodplain was transformed into a sophisticated, locally organized…
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