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A Heritage of Ruins : The Ancient Sites of Southeast Asia and Their Conservation /

The ancient ruins of Southeast Asia have long sparked curiosity and romance in the world's imagination. They appear in accounts of nineteenth-century French explorers, as props for Indiana Jones' adventures, and as the scene of Lady Lara Croft's fantastical battle with the forces of e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Chapman, William (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • A Southeast Asian heritage : background and context
  • Indonesia : the temple-mountains of Prambanan and Borobudur
  • Cambodia : Angkor, the city that is a temple
  • Vietnam and Laos : ruins at Mỹ Son and Vat Phu
  • Thailand : Sukhothai, Ayutthaya, and the temples of the Khorat Plateau
  • Burma and Malaysia : the Plain of Pagan and Lembah Bujang
  • The future of Southeast Asia's ancient sites.