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Cambodia: A timeline
Major events and eras in the history of what is now Cambodia from the beginning of the Common Era to the present.
A royal bath
In The Ramayana, page 1.7
Sita is shown taking a royal bath before her wedding to Rama in a mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple. Sita bathes sitting on the edge of an elegant platform shelter extending into a large tiled pool. Two women servants pour water from a gold basin over Sita...
By Lorraine Aragon.
Thai Ramayana poster image in red, black, and white
Thai Ramayana poster image in red, black, and white
A Thai Ramayana poster is colored in red, black, and white. The block ink print is cropped at the bottom, but a black monkey image, representing the monkey god Hanuman or another monkey king helpful to Rama, appears in the lower right. The Ramayana is one...
Format: image/photograph
Man and woman fishing (Thai Ramayana mural)
Man and woman fishing (Thai Ramayana mural)
A detail from a Ramayana mural painting at the Emerald Buddha Temple shows a man and a woman in an idyllic scene of country life. An older white-haired man smoking a pipe and wearing short pants sits on a dock with a younger woman wearing long pants who is...
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Two men fishing at pond (Thai Ramayana mural)
Two men fishing at pond (Thai Ramayana mural)
This scene from the painted Ramayana murals at the Emerald Buddha Temple shows men fishing at a pond bordered by boulders, low bushes, and bright flowers. Two men fish with poles in the foreground, while several large white water birds fly or perch on the...
Format: image/photograph
Detail of men and boy leading two buffaloes (Thai Ramayana mural)
Detail of men and boy leading two buffaloes (Thai Ramayana mural)
This detail of a Ramayana mural painting at the Emerald Buddha Temple shows two men and a boy traveling with two water buffaloes. The two men lead their buffaloes past each other in opposite directions. A boy carrying a herding stick sits on top of the buffalo...
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Detail of commoner family with three children (Thai Ramayana mural)
Detail of commoner family with three children (Thai Ramayana mural)
This detail of a commoner family shown in a Ramayana mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple depicts parents with three children. The mother and oldest child each carry small naked children. The mother holds a crying baby in her arms, while the oldest child carries...
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Rama in golden chariot outside castle walls (Thai Ramayana mural)
Rama in golden chariot outside castle walls (Thai Ramayana mural)
A mural painting at the Emerald Buddha Temple shows Rama, painted with a characteristic green face, in a golden chariot positioned with his followers outside white castle walls. A river runs past the walled city at right, and rocky mountains and vegetation...
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Rama's walled city of Ayudhya (Thai Ramayana mural)
Rama's walled city of Ayudhya (Thai Ramayana mural)
Rama's hometown city of Ayudhya is depicted surrounded with solid white walls on a Ramayana mural painting at the Emerald Buddha Temple. The vantage point of this painting is from outside an inviting entrance gate door served by a well-worn footpath. Over...
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Sita taking royal bath before wedding (Thai Ramayana mural)
Sita taking royal bath before wedding (Thai Ramayana mural)
Sita is shown taking a royal bath before her wedding to Rama in a mural at the Emerald Buddha Temple. Sita bathes sitting on the edge of an elegant platform shelter extending into a large tiled pool. Two women servants pour water from a gold basin over Sita...
Format: image/photograph
Asia 1892
Asia 1892
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Map of Indo-China, showing proposed Burma-Siam-China Railway (1886)
Map of Indo-China, showing proposed Burma-Siam-China Railway (1886)
Map shows colonial borders of Vietnam (Anam), Siam, Burma, Cambodia, and other countries and colonies as they existed in 1886.
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