Temple’s bid to save old cannons fails
via Bangkok Post, 13 July 2023: Contractors dismantled the century-old cannons at Wat Phra Mahathat Woramahawihan in Nakhon Si Thammarat ...
Tag: Nakhon Si Thammarat (province)
Province in Thailand with capital city of the same name. Thai: จังหวัดนครศรีธรรมราช
฿14m temple lighting system in Nakhon Si Thammarat abandoned
via Thai PBS, 09 November 2022: The lighting system was meant to support the temple's bid for Unesco World Heritage, ...
Ai Khai: The cult of prankster ghost boy from the Ayutthaya period
via Coconuts Bangkok, 30 October 2020: Not archaeological, but interesting from a sacred landscapes/animist cult perspective. Ai Khai is the ...
University officials implicated in illegal sale of ancient books in Southern Thailand
via MGR Online, 17 July 2020: Article is in Thai - reports of some 1,300 books, many of them old ...
Thai Senate backs Nakhon Si Thammarat world heritage nomination
via Pattaya Mail, 04 December 2019: The Thai senate committee on arts and culture supports the nomination of Wat Phra ...
Preparing Wat Phra Mahathat Woramahawihan for World Heritage nomination
via Bangkok Post, 10 July 2019: A feature on Wat Phra Mahathat Woramahawihan in Nakhon Si Thammarat and the preparations ...
Linkdump Sep 2012
A roundup of news while I was away at the EurASEAA conference in Dublin: Limestone coffin site found in the ...
Thailand prepares more sites for the world heritage list
Thailand announces ongoing fact-finding programmes to propose five new sites into Unesco's World Heritage Site list by next year. Among ...
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