Mahendraparvata
Sign in to saveMahendraparvata () is an ancient city of the Khmer Empire era in Cambodia. The existence of the city has been known for decades, but much of it lay concealed by forest and earth. The city was uncovered by an archaeological expedition led by Jean-Baptiste Chevance and Damian Evans in 2012 with the aid of airborne laser scanning technology called LIDAR.
Key facts
- Settlement.native_name
- មហេន្ទ្របវ៌ត
- Settlement.official_name
- Mahendraparvata
- Settlement.type
- Archaeological site
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- right
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- Cambodia
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- 1
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- Location in Cambodia
- Settlement.established_date
- 802 AD
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- Founded
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- Country
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- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Siem Reap Province
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- fixed construction
- Country
- Cambodia
- Located in
- Siem Reap Province
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Location
- Expedition
- History
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Mahendraparvata () is an ancient city of the Khmer Empire era in Cambodia. The existence of the city has been known for decades, but much of it lay concealed by forest and earth. The city was uncovered by an archaeological expedition led by Jean-Baptiste Chevance and Damian Evans in 2012 with the aid of airborne laser scanning technology called LIDAR.
==Etymology== The name Mahendraparvata means "Mountain of the Great Indra". It is derived from the Sanskrit words महेन्द्र (Great Indra, a title of the Hindu god Indra) and पर्वत (mountain) and is a reference to the sacred mountain site commonly known today as Phnom Kulen, where Jayavarman II was consecrated as the first king of the Khmer Empire in 802. The name is attested in inscriptions on the Angkor-area Ak Yum temple.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mahendraparvata” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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