In this video it states clearly that the inscriptions carved in the walls are khmer old writing style. This is how they found out the creators of angkor and because of this, the scholars were able to read it from help from the khmers.
So, guys th answer has been found. It does belong to cambodia
In the video it does state that the ppl who lived around it did not know who had built it. It didn't mention that everyone didn't know. They did mention only a few monks and villagers lived there, so these villagers of new generation do not know because their lack of knowlegde. These were uneducated farmers and so.


Proof.

Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHLfoPhm3JQ...be_gdata_player


The second video shows a documentary of the stolen treasures of angkor by thais imported to thailand for sale.
Which is kinda fu-ked up. But eh.
Why steal and sell it if angkor is a treasure and built by so called thailand. And why steal and chop off the heads and statue of angkor if it belongs to thailand. Why do such a horrible thing to a sacred monument? Not only that, if thailand had indeed built this religous monument it doesnt make sense to why the khmers are there till this day. Shouldnt it be the tais? If they truly built angkorwhy are they not in cambodia. It only means that the khmers were invaded by the siamese and it must have been a terrible war which to only half survived starting over without there powerful kings. It doesnt make sense to why the khmer are there instead of thailand. And if you see the ayuthayya buildings and other thai buldings, they do not resemble the structure style of angkor wat what so ever. Not only that thailand were obssesed with buddah because of all the buddah statues which highly indicate that they were always buddhist and never hindu. Angkor is hindu monument. It shows that angkor city was invaded and their culture was stolen. Along with dancers and everything. Angkor is clearly known to have been a very sufisticated city. It also shows that tailand didnt care then when they invaded the khmer empire and angkor until now they realize how much publicity and rich it really is. Because why arent they the ones living in cambodia? Around angkor wat? If they truly built it.
Even till this day the khmer style is different from thailand. What ever is shown in this video indcates what the thais had done in the past and is still doing now. "Stealing"

Just like the romans built the collisieum the people are still there, eygptians built pyramids there still there, china built the great wall there still there, the aztecs which are mexician built there temples there still within the perimeter of there country. Just like the thais built ayyutha buildings there still living there. So it makes sense angkor belongs to cambodia,khmer,(kambuja) or what ever you wish to call khmers are still living there in their country.

Here is part 1: enjoy

Stolen treasures of cambodia

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKqtKepNi2s...be_gdata_player

It's funny that the Thai claim Ankor Wat as their own. But how the Lao do not claim such temple as ours? Because we keep our heritage real. Unlike the Thai who seem to love to grab land,culture,language and even historic artifact to reclaim it as theirs own. Truely the Thai or the Siamese do not represent the Tai people as a family. But they are sure the real Siamese who has nothing to do with the Tai people the first place.

Angkor Wat is the Vatican city of South East Asia at that time. Which is why the Siamese/Thai are trying to hide that fact by fabricating their own version.

Khmer were stinky slaves who rebelled in 1336 under trosok peam and become lords of Angkor. All of your history is fabricated by your French masters. Khom built angkor not you filthy khamen slaves

I love you ms khmer your Indian sister is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen. They should bottle her farts and sell it like perfume.

Listen I didn't want to start this but I had too because of all the negative controversy from thai ppl on here. We didn't get no information from no goddam fu-kin french ppl. We obviously helped in finding the truth and I basically made it clear enough for pplb to understand. Yes we are dark. And that's why we built angkor. You really fu-king think being baked under the sun allday would keep your complexion white as a ghost? come on. You guys are so jealous that we are more loved that you can't take that, till the point you want to claim what's rightfully ours as yours. I bet this is why you ppl are they they are. Look it how ignorant and selfish you are.

Suriin1234 was right. You can even find it on youtube. Lol! Thanks for the links, Mskhmer.

I believe most Thai and Siem don't care about Angkor Wat and who built it at all. It is only a few people that are awe-struck by our beautiful, glorious, majestic and very exotic temple. I mean who wouldn't be? Haha! Anyway, so anyone can tell their theory of who built it first for all I care. But I just don't like it when they theorize it while throwing insults and hatred at us.

We are not trying to claim it as ours. Just merely stating that the origin of Angkor is inconsistent with contemporary findings. There has been no indication of a Khmer group until post 1336. Old Khmer is actually a Syam language. This language is synonymous with Khmers because they adopted the writing system.
So Old Khmer you speak of is Syam

And to top that if they were slave there is no way slaves can rebell against armors swords and everything the theory is just ridiculous. Let me ask you can any thai person read what is written on the angkor walls???? The answer is noo.

That guy just blew a fuse.

How is it possible that it didn't exist? When angkor is older then syam? And to say a culture and there people never existed is really retarded because its evident that they indeed had exisited. The cham has written records of fighting with them for ages even th chinese scholars know.

Most Khmers can't read old Khmer as well since modern Khmer is heavily influenced by Thai, Vietnam and Laos.

does it mention Khmer?

I have a song for you ms khmer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDCWjHHel78

Yes buddy, let me ask you this, why are there various names for tai's? Siamese and so forth? Are they the same ppl yes.

How are they heavenly influenced by vietnam and laos. You dnt see them dressing like vietnam or playing vietnam insturments. Idiot.

By your definition Tai=Siamese= Khom masters of stinky Khmen slave. Tai and Syamese are not the same people. Syamese are what Tai call Khom. Thailand is a nationality and not an ethnicity.

The language was heavily influenced by its neighbors.

Old Khmer (Angkor) ------> Middle Khmer (Post Angkor/Profound Changes) -------> Modern Khmer (Can't be applied old Khmer)

ahaha from khmer to khom then syam whats next?

the truth

Nomatter what you say its all from your little mind. you really have an idea where the khmer language reall came from how pathetic some how we got it from three different ethnics? Its so retarded.

Wtf? They can't be applied to old angkor? These people now came from them, how is that not included with all the angkor times. Idiot. Explain how tai was supposedly from nan chao.

Tai and Siamese are not the same people. Siamese are Austro Asiatic just like the Mons, Khmers and Khmu people.

Old khmer was used during Angkorian times and not can not be directly applied to modern Khmer. During the period of Middle Khmer (post angkor) the language went under tremendous changes. Thus, any inscriptions are not a direct translation from modern Khmer.

Okay so you tell me this, your saying thailand has no influence from anyone @ all?bull $hit. The snaskrit is still use even till today. With spells and all. Were thailand ever hindu? What's up with nan chao and stuff you explain that, since you seem to know so deeply in this history. Your not the person investigating physically like the scholars and archeologist. For them to able to put theorys and everyhing together they must piece by piece find information and investigate from there. Not just my faulty accussation form from rumors and so forth. So many videos shows reasonable explaination, yet there's all these khom and different b.s out of know where. No thai perosn can read what's on the wall. Monks that chant there day by day, can read these inscriptions so dnt give me these bull crap.

Khom theories are just ridiculous and at times amusing as to who the Siems really are. They seem to know more about "Khom" than they know more about what Siems really are and come from. What really got me cracking up the most is that now they are claiming the language on the wall is that of "old Siem" language. Next thing you'll know is that they'll say the image on the bas-relief wall depicting the Siems are really images of "Khom". Haha!

It sounds like he is starting to find this "Khom" theory quite funny.

I never said Thailand was never influenced. This wasn't even a subject up for discussion. What monks chant in srok khmer is pali of Theravada Buddhism. it's not old khmer. the inscriptions are in sanskrit and old khmer.

no the images of khom are that of jayavarman VII on the bayon and other Khom kings.

The Thais are frustrated that Cambodia gets the world's attention:


1.Angelina Jolie loves Cambodian culture (I love her)

2.German funding for preservation of Angkor Wat.

3.Transformers movie being shot in Cambodia.

4.A great movie about great Khmer empire in the making.

5.I love Khmer culture.

And your absolutely right. When we went to war our country was ruined in 1975 and from there thailand rose up in publicity and they were loved and got attention from foreigners. So many khmer love thailand drama and thailand stars too and They left us alone, never declaring that angkor or the apsara dance belong to them, until now that we get the love too, they can't have it. They got gredit for muy thai and everything else. Its like its a never ending competition to them. Its like anything you can you I can do better. But when it comes to angkor they know there is no way they can do better.

hi, savan...did you take some time off to cry

Lao is another branch of Tai, that's all you need to know and siamese tai were our slaves.

Listen we honestly don't know that. I'm not trying to start this blog so people and make fun of eachother. I'm just stating the facts. We don't know truly that they were our slaves.

It's the truth, Tai were Khmer slaves. If not for Khmer Lao would not have any land today. just read the evidence in my signature.

The killing field in a sweet-melon plantation





A most mysterious event in World’s history is the disappearance of the Varman Dynasty from a greatest Khmer empire at Angkor, nowadays in Cambodia. Many theories for its destruction have been proposed -- ranging from warfare, famine, disease and environmental deterioration. Here, I will propose new theories:

* The Varman dynasty was abolished by a slave revolt
* The Varman and their people, the ancient Khmer, were referred to by the local people (mostly slaves) at Angkor back then as Siamese.
* When the local people were successful in killing/expelling the Siamese off Angkor they re-named the city as Siamreap, meaning Extinction of Siamese.
* The Varman relatives fled Angkor to establish Sri Ayodhaya, which later became the capital of the kingdom of Siam.



I will try to support the proposed theories with evidences, reasons, historical contexts as well as common senses.



1) The Varman dynasty had been ruling the magnificent Angkor Empire for around 500 years (since around 900 AD.) but it had disappeared abruptly in 1336 AD.

2) The new king after that was “Trosok Pream” which in Cambodian means “sweet melon.” The traditional suffix “Varman” has never appeared in Cambodian kings’ names again ever since.



3) A most accepted theory for the disappearance of Angkor has been that of its sacking by the invading Siamese Army. Little is known that the spiritual destruction of Angkor had preceded its physical destruction long before that -- and it began in 1336 AD. , the year of the killing field in a sweet melon plantation. This article will propose a new theory and will propose further that Cambodians are not the same group of people as the ancient Khmer who built Angkor.



4) According to the first Chronicle of Cambodia, authored by one of the greatest kings of Cambodia “Nak-Ang-Eng” or Narairacha III (around 1800 AD) --purely Cambodian in his conduct –without as yet any influence of France--Cambodia’s ancestors are this King Sweet-Melon and his son named Nippean-bot.





5) King Sweet-Melon, according to the Chronicle, was formerly a farmer in the royal palace. He grew such a sweet melon that the king gave him a sacred spear in order to fend off thieves who might come to steal the precious melon. One night, the king had been so craving for the melon that he walked onto the melon field to pick one for himself. Mr. Sweet-melon mistook the king for a thief and speared him to death. After that, he took the princess as his wife and ascended the throne.



6) Later Chronicles that were influenced by the ruling French Colony had extended the Cambodian origin up to that of the Varman itself, the Varman whom the Cambodian legendary forefather had erased from the face of Angkor’s history. The extensions were of interest to the French colonialism which was expanding to take more and more territory from Siam, by claiming that these lands were historically linked to the Khmer-Varman empire.



7) Meanwhile sometime later than 1336 AD. at SriAyodhya, along the rim of the Chaophraya river in nowadays Thailand, King U-thong had been busying building his capital from scratches. This city would later become one of the greatest cities on earth, superseding Angkor and even Paris and London, at least in terms of numbers of population.

8) There had been numerous theories proposing the origin of this legendary King of nowadays Thailand. Among others are: He was a son of a Chinese Emperor, He was a rich Chinese merchant from Petchaburi province (Van Vlit’s Chronicles), He was a son of a king from ChiangSaen, A Sultan from Malaya, etc. In this article I am proposing yet another theory that: He was the leader of the Siamese people who were fleeing the “killing field” at Angkor. The killing field ensued from a revolt by the slaves who formed a huge majority at Angkor. And the leader of the slaves was Trosok Pream.



9) The city of Angkor has long been referred to by the Cambodians as “Seamreab”, meaning “annihilation of the Siamese people”. (Seam = siam, reab = flat, no more in existence) This insult ironically and indirectly becomes a strong evidence that the Siamese must have once heavily populated Angkor. ..they were killed and/or expelled away by the dominant slaves in 1336 AD., led by King Sweet Melon, in accordance with the 1st Cambodian Chronicle.





10) According to the record of the now-famous Zhou Da Guan, a China’s commercial envoy member, in 1296 AD., only 40 year before the killing field incident, the city of Angkor was dominated by “slaves”. ......“Most families have more than 100 slaves, some have 20, only the poorest families have none” , he wrote. It is not hard to estimate then that, out of about 1 million population of Angkor, 7 out of 10 were slaves. The rest of them were the King and his royal families, nobles, officials and their families, soldiers and their families, priests, Chinese merchants.



11) SriAyodhya was completed in 1350 AD., 14 years after the killing field incident. This was a very reasonable time span to build a city to accommodate around 2-300 thousand population. (This number was estimated by numerous scholars from various historical evidences and in my opinion is credible on historical contexts, for example in 1352 AD., only 2 years afterward, U-thong invaded Angkor; he must have had a large population base to form his army to fight the huge Cambodian army back then.)





12) The most relevant question to be asked is that: where did these 2-300 thousands come from? The most popular theory which held that they migrated from the nearby city of U-thong has now proved to be flawed since the city had been voided 2-300 hundred years before that. Even if so, U-thong city would have been too small to accommodate 300,000 population. In fact there was no other cities in the vicinity of 300 kilometers of SriAyodhya to have such number of population, except Angkor.



13) Zhou Da Guan writes further that the local people speak a “different language” from those of officials and scholars; ...their skins are very dark but you can find people whose skins are as white as jade among the nobles; ...they don’t know how to produce silk; ..nor do they know how to stitch and darn with a needle and thread.







14) Let’s pause and think -- How could the majority of people who did not know how to weave elaborated clothing with a loom, did not know how to stitch and darn with a needle and thread, would know how to dig, move and carve immense stones to erect the magnificent Angkor? The only logical answer is that the stone temple of Angkor was designed and managed by another tribe of people who held more advanced technology. And within the vicinity around Angkor there were only the Chamese and the Siamese.



15) Given that the Chamese were traditional enemy and that Angkor Wat, Bapuan, Bayon were built in the same style as Phimai castle in Phimai which was completed some 50 years before Angkor. I am now proposing a new theory that: the people who conceived, designed and managed all the building of the stone temples of Angkor was the Siamese from Phimai (who had been blamed by most western scholars as, ironically, the one who demolished the greatness of Angkor.)







16) But these Siamese then were not totally the same people as the present day Thai. In fact they were referred to by the northern Thais as Khom. But apparently the Cambodian people of Ankor back then called them by the name of Siam (pronounced as seam in single syllable).





17) Zhou Da Guan, continued on his record: “The Siamese women did know how to weave silk with loom as well as stitch and darn with a needle. They brought silk worms and mulberry trees from the land of Siam.”



18) The Siamese had not been well known to be keen on mercantilism . But why did they appear at Angkor in such a number, so many so that Zhou had noticed their weaving ability? The answer is perhaps that they went there to accompany their families who were the ruling elites of Angkor, officials, scholars, soldiers and perhaps even some merchants. Some of them were also ‘as white as jade’ since the Siamese, then as is now, were of mixed races.



19) The connections of the ruling elites at Angkor and the Siamese are numerous, indicating that Lopburi, Pimai and Angkor were related not only by interests but also by blood. To mention just a few:

19.1 Suryavarman I is believed to be a Buddhist . Where did he get Buddhism idea from, other than Phimai? His origin was unknown either. But he had fought hard in battle for some years for the throne. It is very possible that Phimai, a predominantly Buddhist culture, sent an armed forces to establish him as a buddhist king? That was why he built Phimai castle at Pimai, not at Angkor.

19.2 Chayavarman VI is now widely accepted as coming from the Korat plateau’s city of Pimai. He built a 220 kilometer super-highway which linked Pimai and Angkor. He also finished the building of Pimai stone temple which was initiated by S-I.

19.3 Most important thing in connection with C-6 is that he claimed to have descended from his mythical father named “Kambhu Svayambhuva” and a mother named “Mera.” These two words, one was his first name and the second was his second name, had perhaps been transformed into two of the most confusing words, namely, those of Kambhuja and Syam (Siam)

19.4 Svayambhuva, was in fact another name for Bhraman. Morever this name had appeared in Pallava, Sanskrit, Pali -stone inscriptions all over the “Land Zhenla” area from wat Pu to Ubonrajatani to Srithep since about the 6th AD. I am thus inclined to believe that C-6 had ascended the throne with the help of Pimai’s army. Phimai troops must have remained in Angkor for a long time to assure stability, so much so that families members from Pimai came to accompany them, bringing silk weaving technology along with them (Pimai has been famous for her supreme silk weaving technology even nowadays.) To accommodate the extreme hardship of family migrations then C-6 ordered the building of the super-highway. The Pimai soldiers and their families were then honorably referred to by the local people as the “Swayam” (descendants of Swayambhuva) which later shortened to “Syam” and later as “Seam” to suit the tongues of the local Cambodians.

19.5 Some analyst even conclude that C-6 spent most of his time at Pimai, not at Angkor.

19.6 Suryavarman II is believed to have come from Lopburi. His name and suffix “II” indicates some relations to S-I, hence Phimai. The fact that he is the only Varman king to worship Vishnu rather than Shiva is still a puzzle to historians. IMO this, too, could be linked to the influence of Lopburi’s and Phimai’s Buddhism. S-I had testified before him that Buddhism would not work out well in the predominantly hindu society, so S-II learned from S-I’s mistakes and employed a new subtle tactic. One should realize that the Buddha was also believed by the Hindu to be the 9th reincarnation of Vishnu. So by adopting Vishnu S-II could win over the minds of both beliefs and that was what making him one of Angkor’s greatest kings, second perhaps only to Chayavarman VII.





20) Here comes accounts of the greatest king of them all—Chayavarman VII. Inscriptions about his origin were vague. Some speculated that he spent his early life in Champa; but I beg to be different for I think that he was from Pimai. The evidences for this are numerous, mostly contextual:

20.1He came from nowhere to expel away the Cham invaders who had occupied Angkor for 4 years. Had he come from Champa, where would he recruit his huge army to recapture Angkor in 4 years?; from the Cham itself?

20.2Only logical answer is : he came from Pimai. As in the case of C-6, Pimai , again, helped him to expel Champa , most likely with support from Lopburi, as is evident by the bas relief on Angkor walls, depicting Lopburi and “Syam Kuk” soldiers side by side.

20.3Do not forget also that C6, S2 and C7 are linked by blood through the Mahendhrapura dynasty and that the founder is C6 who was from Phimai.

20.4 C-7 became a most devout Buddhist. Whose influence was that?, Champa? No way. Because Champa’s culture back then was dominantly hinduistic with some initial Islamic influences. It was impossible for C-7 to have been nurtured in such environments and later became a devout Buddhist.

20.5 After his ascent to greatness, he rewarded Phimai with a renovation of the super-highway, several hundreds of mini-hospitals and rest areas (arokaya-sala) were erected along the highway. His stone monuments were found deep under grounds, not surprisingly in both Angkor and Pimai. These renovations were to facilitate more migration of the Svayamese from Pimai to reunite with their relatives (soldiers, officers, nobles) in Angkor.

20.6 All of the mentioned evidences point to the fact that C-7 was from Pimai. He was also a grand son of the great forefather “Svayam”.



21) One of the most amazing thing that have been hitherto looked over is that the Cambodian people today still count their numbers the same way as recorded by Zhou Da Guan: They count only to 5. For 6 they pronounce it as 5-1, 7 as 5-2 and so on. Counting system and its pronunciation, in my opinion, is the strongest evidence of a cultural linkage. The fact that the ancient Varman and the U-thong people of Ayodhaya used the same counting system and the alphabets from 1-10 were exactly the same, based on a base 10 numerals, at least confirms that they were of different tribes from the Cambodian.



22) The Dhevaraja (God-King) concept is the most prominent feature of the Varman dynasty. King Sweet-Melon , being ascended from a slave class by killing off the Varman, certainly wouldn’t dare claim to be one of such a highly prestigious origin. Turning a crisis into an opportunity, he established himself as a new truly Cambodian king who is “in touch” with the people. That was why he was highly regarded as the legendary forefather of the Cambodia race, as later chronicled by King Nag-Ong-Eng.





23) The dhevaraja traditions, however, had been long rooted in Khmer culture and should not be as easily abolished by a mere spearing of a Varman king. Its seed had been brought to and sprouted again at SriAyodhya. The royal name for King U-Thong is “Rama-I” who was “King of Ayodhya”. According to the Ramayana Epic of India, Rama was none other than the 8th reincarnation of Vishnu, a mythical king of a mythical heavenly city named Ayodhya.





24) Raja-supth (The royal language) is required for any Thai to address their King. This tradition has not been changed much since the time of early SriAyodhya. The language is very refined: mostly a mixture of Sanskrit and Khom (ancient Khmer ). This is another strong evidence that king U-Thong was from Angkor. He was a Khom (ancient khmer), what other languages would we expect him to speak to his people? So he spoke Khom to them. Later, the language was used by the court as the sacred language of the dhevaraja; this was a good strategy in governing the kingdom.





25) Early SriAyudhya literatures had been recorded with a mixture of Thai, Khom, Pali, Sanskrit. These are evident in the books of “Ong-karn-Chaeng-Nam” and the “Li-lit-yuan-paii”, for examples. These are additional evidences that the early Ayodhayians were originally from Angkor but later mixed with the affluence of the Thai- (and mon-, and laos-) speaking people and transform into the present-day Thai people.



26) The first Westerner to discover the ruin of Angkor were not the French, but the Portuguese, in around 1600 AD. They recorded that the local people testified that Angkor had been built by foreigners and the Portuguese concluded that these foreigners were the ones who built SriAyodhya.



27) The naming of the various Prasats at Angkor are very interesting for they are very Siamese; signifying that the kings who named them must have had strong links with the Siamese or perhaps the Siamese themselves.



1. First of all Angkor Wat: Angkor is a variation of Nakara in Sanskrit but Wat is simply “temple” in Siamese. Angkor Wat is then “temple city.”
2. Angkor Thom: most scholars translate Thom as ‘big’; but I think Thom here is rather a variation of Tham, a siamese rendition of Dhamma in Pali. So Angkor Thom is really “the city of Dhamma.” It is unthinkable that a Dhammic king like C-7 who built such a magnificent city would have named his city by a ‘little’ name such as ‘big city.” Moreover, the spelling of Thom is also exactly the same spelling of Tham in Pali. (note that only the Siamese used Pali.)
3. NeakPean (NakPan in Siamese) : It means “coiled by Naka (a mythical snake)” The shortening of Sanskrit words such as Naka into “Nak” was a typical Siamese style founded all over in their language. (Raja= Raj, Rama=Ram, Kasatriya=Kasat, Parama= Borom, etc.)
4. PhimeanAkas: (PimanAkas in Siamese ) the word Piman was a pali rendition of Vimana in Sanskrit. Akas was also a shortening of a formerly longer word (perhaps Akasa : thin air, heaven ). The change of V in Sanskrit to P was also unique in Siamese—a Pali influence.
5. Prea..... (Phra... in Siamese): Here again the word Phra is uniquely very Siamese: a prefix for something sacred. This was a Siamese rendition of Vra in Sanskrit. There are so many prasarts beginning with Phra such as PreaKand, PreaPalilay, PreaRup – some are understood readily in Siamese.
6. Ta…(Ancestor, or Eye) : such as TaProm, TaKeaw
7. PakSiJamKrong: (Bird in cage) : Paksi is bird in Sanskrit but JamKrong is Siamese.
8. TepPanom (Respecting Angel): very Siamese, especially Tep is a siamese rendition of Teva in Sanskrit. Here we have both the shortening style and the P in place of V style.
9. ChauSayTevada (Linage of angel): all Siamese
10. Even Bayon might be related since Ba is Learned One in Isan-siamese and Yon is Looking. So Bayon could mean LearnedOne Looking. LearnedOne here is the Buddha whose 216 giant stone faces are Looking all over.
11. Most names of the prasarts at Angkor wat and Angkor thom are very related to Siamese language. Only a few are not readily discernable; like panom-bakeng, Thomanon.





There are still several more evidences in recorded history, contexts, archaeological artifacts, arts, cultures, languages as well as plain common senses to help us to conclude that the ancient Khmer people who built the great Angkor stone temples are not of the same tribe as the present day Cambodians (2011 AD). Quite to the opposite, these mysterious group of people were evidently exterminated by the revolting slaves who formed the majority in Angkor population by a margin of 7:3. I am certain that there would be many more evidences to support my proposed theory coming forth in the future as our minds are no longer blocked by a curtain of pre-conception.



I am also well aware that it is difficult to accept this new theory about Angkor’s past because the French scholastic machine, sponsored by her colonial wealth, had planted quite a strong scholastic root that already grew so deep.



As to the Cambodian people I do not mean to insult their pride; but historical facts sometimes are hard to swallow. We should learn from it constructively in order to not repeating its past cruelty in our present time.



...Tawit Chitsomboon (Feb. 20th , 2011)

tawit.boon@gmail.com

Savan rehashing the same old $hit and now hes pretending to be thai

thanks, That was a funny read.

It's quite amusing that the person would say that the naming of most Khmer temples sounds much like how a Siem would name theirs.

Angkor "THAM" lol

It doesnt make any sense to how the old so called syam writting style is still the same writting style in cambodia as oppose to thai writing styl now,it just looks nothing like the khmer style. And you do know when you say white like jade, you do realize there are many light skin people within the khmer regime aswell.

And where did the so call escaped king find people to build ayuthayya buildings? More slaves? Highly doubt it. And why is the style not like the ones from cambodia? Do you realize it takes true artists to be able to carve beautiful sculpters how could slaves do it? Hmmm? How could slaves carve magnificant sculptures and be able to carve in writting when slaves didnt even know how to read nor wrtie. Ayyuthaya sculpters does not! I repeat does not resemble the khmer style @ all. If indeed they had the blue print and used socalled slave to build angkor, wouldnt they keep the old style and build it in ayyuthaya? If you compare the buddahs to a few buddahs in the angkor wat temple it does not even come close to the khmer style. And to state about zhua duguan, the french, american, and german people translated his artifacts and findings which clearly states numerous times with the word khmer in it. How else will they find proof? Why would they twist it?



Here is a link for zhua duguan if you wish to read more of his stuff just search his name.

Peter harris an american author saw that the french written record of zhua duguan books did not capture his records fully. So this american translates zhua duguan
Actual artifacts in english.
It states perfectly the khmers over and over, there daily life, and so forth.

And for your info the reason why they renamed it siem reimp is because they crushed the thais from invdading and stealing trying to take the land. Look a ayuthaya, why was it abandon? Were the thai also slaves and drove out the people who "originally built it and took over"? No they were invaded by the burmese. Same situtation with angkor being invaded by the siamese.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-arch...android&c=y

Siem Riep means thais all over the ground every where somthing like that

It means flatten another word crushing is similiar kind of

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I posted some links here comparing the writing style of both parties from ancient times.

Khmer old writing style on angkor walls.

http://www.superstock.com/stock-photos-images/1566-466355


http://www.traveljournals.net/pictures/10520.html

http://m.flickr.com/photos/metromani/32369...in/photostream/


Khmer modern writing. Still slightly resemble the style of th ancient time.

http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/images/publications/KhmerTitle.gif

http://www.magma.ca/~sary/KhmerFonts.jpg

http://learnkhmer.net/ModernKhmerrev1.jpg
http://www.khmeros.info/drupal/files/BalieFont.png
http://rahsgeo.wikispaces.com/file/view/ca...mbodia43670.jpg

Now this is thai's

http://images1.reservethaihotels.com/writingThai.jpg
http://static.photaki.com/thai-writing_416260.jpg
http://www.thai-language.com/character_sty...PSL-Asadong.gif
http://fishkat.files.wordpress.com/2008/12...?w=448&h=97


Can you see the difference? Between khmer and thai stone inscriptions?

There's too many words in the English vocab it can be interpenetrated that can mean the same thing and that word is "defeated"

I've always interpret Siem Reap as Siems Built. Doesn't Reap mean built, or to organize in Khmer?

Siem Reap Angkor Wat= Siems Built Angkor Wat

There is no question that Old Khmer is the father of modern Khmer. But, during the period of Middle Khmer the language changed drastically. So the question is whether Old Khmer inscriptions can be interpret without errors? lost in translation?

What does it say here?

Khmer is a contemporary term used to described the current people. Zhou Daguan never mentioned "Khmers" in his records. The term Khmers is synonymous with contemporary subscription to the Angkor period. This is why Peter Harris and others use "khmer" to described the people in the books. Though the term Khmer doesn't appear in Ancient S.E.A inscriptions.

Please help search for the word Khmer in ancient SEA inscriptions or any records for that matter.

Dude you clearly stated that after the khmers drove out their socalled masters they renamed it siem reap. Your an idiot now why would they name it after that?

Something is not right with you.

Dude you clearly stated that after the khmers drove out their socalled masters they renamed it siem reap. Your an idiot now why would they name it after that?

Something is not right with you.

He stated the chams, the siam and khmer buddy. Seriously aren't you khmer? What the hell are you an alien.

Zhou Daguan mentioned Khmers? Did he call the people Khmers in the original record? If you can provide such info I will be inclined to accept that Khmers = khom.

that wasn't my writings. just a theory of why siam were the khoms of Angkor.

regardless siem reap is a modern name and doesn't apply to angkorean times. so whether it reference the destruction or foundation of siem people is irrelevant. though one could argue the historical context of the name.

ms khmer you are so beautiful. I love you so much. we should have a marriage ceremony similar to that of Preah Ong and Neang Neak. Will you be my naga princess?