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The Forgotten Inscriptions of Angkor: Life Beyond the Temples
Angkor's stone temples tell only part of the story. The empire's thousands of inscriptions—carved on temple walls, stele, and even cave walls—reveal the everyday lives of ordinary Khmer people. This episode explores what these texts say about land disputes, taxes, slavery, marriages, and festivals in the Khmer Empire. Lucas and Luna discuss the work of epigraphists like George Coedès and the challenges of translating ancient Khmer and Sanskrit. They also touch on a famous 10th-century inscription from the temple of Banteay Srei that details a land dispute over coconut groves, and a…
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