Funan

The Austronesian language family covers half the planet so who are Austronesians, where do they live and where do they come from?

Chenla The Chenla civilisation flourished from the late 6th to early 9th century occupying a large swathe of Southeast Asia including Cambodia, southern Laos, parts of the Mekong Delta and much of what is today central and northeastern Thailand. It was to give rise to the wonders of the Angkor empire – Bayon, Angkor Thom, Preah Vihear and of course…

Capital Cities of Cambodia Off the top of our heads we’ve come up with no less than 11 different capital cities of Cambodia over the course of some 1500 years – although we may well have overlooked another one or two – while several of these sites have been the capital on more than one separate occasion. Many of the…

Although the ports of Funan traded with ancient Greece and Rome, this early Southeast Asian civilisation remains very little known