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Ancient Siam (also known as Ancient City, Thai: เมืองโบราณ, Mueang Boran) is a museum park constructed by Lek Viriyaphant and occupying over 200 acres (0.81 km 2) in the shape of Thailand.
The city walls form a rectangle about 2 km east–west by 1.6 km north–south. There are 193 ruins on 70 square kilometers of land. There is a gate in the centre of each wall. Inside are the remains of the royal palace and twenty-six temples, the largest being Wat Mahathat. [citation needed]
An excavation map shows traces of an ancient baray (water reservoir) close to the southwestern tip of Wat Yai Chai Mongkhon, which could have been built on a former important Khmer temple complex. [4] The city was captured by the Burmese in 1569. Though not pillaged, it lost "many valuable and artistic objects."
The Sukhothai Kingdom [i] was a post-classical Siamese kingdom (maṇḍala) in Mainland Southeast Asia surrounding the ancient capital city of Sukhothai in present-day north-central Thailand. It evolved from a trading hub to a city-state in 1127 [3]: 2–3 and emerged into the kingdom by Si Inthrathit in 1238.
Dong Lakhon ancient city; E. Elephant Kraal, Ayutthaya ... Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Archaeological sites in Thailand"
Thailand ratified the convention on 17 September 1987. [3] As of 2024, Thailand has eight sites on the list. The first three sites were listed in 1991: Historic Town of Sukhothai and Associated Historic Towns, Historic City of Ayutthaya, and Thungyai–Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuaries.
The Ayutthaya Kingdom (red) and the Northern Cities (blue) in the 14th century Intersecting mandalas circa 1360: from north to south: Lan Xang, Lanna, Northern Cities, Ayutthaya, Angkor and Champa Ayutthaya is shown in the Fra Mauro map of the world (c. 1450) under the name "Scierno", derived from the Persian "Shahr-I-Naw", meaning 'New City' [78]
Si Thep Historical Park (Thai: อุทยานประวัติศาสตร์ศรีเทพ) is an archaeological site in Thailand's Phetchabun province.It covers the ancient city of Si Thep, a site inhabited from around the third to fifth century CE until the thirteenth century, spanning cultural periods from late prehistory, through Dvaravati, to the golden age of the Khmer ...