Angkor’s Route to the Sea Is Hiding in Plain Sight
There is a major blind spot in the scholarship on Angkor. Scholars know that Angkor was connected by water from the Tonle Sap Lake to the Tonle Sap River and…
Claude, Language, and Work
In the late 1990s, I remember that I used the Netscape browser. Then Microsoft Internet Explorer came along and then Firefox. . . At some point I “jumped ship” and…
Seven Chickens, Six Hens, One Rooster
I have been spending some time recently looking at the wooden slips, or mujian 木簡 (Việt: mộc giản), that were excavated from the palace of the Nanyue Kingdom in Guangzhou.Nanyue/Nam…
Who Were the Hồi Kê? (aka Historians! It’s Over!!!)
After a break for a few months, it’s difficult to get into the mood to write a new blog post. I have plenty of ideas, but when I think of…