PASTEXPERIENCE HISTORY

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Around the twelfth century · A fictional settlement near Angkor

Once more, after the rain

Follow water through a settlement near Angkor

Supply the field and drain water away from the house.

Opening only one channel will not protect a neighbour’s home.

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Connecting water storage to inhabited places

What changes between wet and dry conditions?

Rain falls over a reservoir, embankments, temples and homes across the wider city.
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ReservoirEmbankmentWider inhabited area

Water concerns the wider landscape.

The city extends beyond temples

Angkor comprised temples and a wider urban landscape of reservoirs, embankments and canals. Connect those less visible structures with inhabited places.

Sources and scope

These illustrations explain processes and institutions rather than reconstructing actual people, buildings or layouts. Cutaways and insets show hidden structures or separate locations.

Angkor ↗

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Rain falls over a reservoir, embankments, temples and homes across the wider city.

Rain falls over a reservoir, embankments, temples and homes across the wider city.

Dara, Srey, Kea, the father, events and conversations are fictional. The canal layout is invented for simplified flow and task models, not a reconstruction of twelfth-century gates, mechanisms or techniques. Modern conservation sources are not used as proof of identical ancient procedures.

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Sources
  1. Angkor ↗

    UNESCO World Heritage Centre · Khmer capitals of the ninth to fifteenth centuries, reservoirs, canals and living communities.

  2. Restores ancient canals ↗

    APSARA National Authority · Investigation and restoration of old canals for flood management and agriculture.

  3. Environment, Water & Forestry management — Hydraulic network ↗

    APSARA National Authority · Current canal and dyke rehabilitation, conserving hydraulic infrastructure and attention to flooding and livelihoods; not specific ancient gates or repair procedures.