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The Sugar Palm and the Sweetness of Angkor's Everyday Life
In this episode of Fexingo History, Lucas and Luna explore the humble sugar palm (Borassus flabellifer), a tree that sweetened the Khmer Empire and shaped its daily life. From the sap tapped to make sugar and wine, to the leaves that roofed homes and the wood that built bridges, the sugar palm was everywhere in Angkor. We trace its role through inscriptions, like the K. inscriptions from the temple of Preah Khan, and compare it to the famous baray reservoirs, showing how a single tree could sustain an empire. With a nod to Zhou Daguan, the Chinese envoy who recorded 13th-century Cambodia, we…
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