Archaeology · Asian & African Archaeology
A topic within Asian & African Archaeology, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Archaeology.
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Henri Mouhot
The published diary that brought Angkor to Western attention, describing the temple complex as the work of a vanished, sophisticated Khmer civilisation rather than a natural curiosity.
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Uses newly practical photography, rather than the sketches of earlier travellers, to document Angkor's temples, arguing the camera can settle disputes about the ruins' scale and condition that verbal description could not.