The CISARK website now supports only French. Cambodian, English and Japanese supports are upcoming. The site contains several hard to find French books in PDF format.Monday, February 11, 2008
Cambodge Soir Hebdo
Translated from French by Luc Sâr
An interactive map provides a survey of thousands of Khmer archeological sites. It was set up by the Inventory Office of the Cambodian Culture Ministry.
The team of the Inventory Office of the Cambodian Culture and Fine Arts Ministry has recently set up a website dedicated to archeological research on ancient Khmer world. “The CISARK (French acronym for: Carte Interactive des Sites ARchéologiques Khmers, or in English: Interactive Maps of Khmer Archeological Sites) was developed based on synthesis work undertaken since 1990 by the Ecole Française d’Extrême Orient (EFEO) [French School of the Far East]. It is integrating in a database: archive documents, photos, maps and publications gathered by researchers for more than one century. This program took a new turn in 2002, during its involvement in the program to prevent traffic of illicit art objects, and it is supported by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs,” the site introduction stated.
More that 2,000 archeological sites were thus identified and 3,000 were cataloged, and are quickly accessible through several search levels (by name, location, inventory number, etc…)
The site is currently available in French only, the English, Japanese and Khmer version are still under construction, this is also true about the extension of this program to Khmer archeological sites located in neighboring countries.
The site website is: http://www.cisark.org/
The team of the Inventory Office of the Cambodian Culture and Fine Arts Ministry has recently set up a website dedicated to archeological research on ancient Khmer world. “The CISARK (French acronym for: Carte Interactive des Sites ARchéologiques Khmers, or in English: Interactive Maps of Khmer Archeological Sites) was developed based on synthesis work undertaken since 1990 by the Ecole Française d’Extrême Orient (EFEO) [French School of the Far East]. It is integrating in a database: archive documents, photos, maps and publications gathered by researchers for more than one century. This program took a new turn in 2002, during its involvement in the program to prevent traffic of illicit art objects, and it is supported by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs,” the site introduction stated.
More that 2,000 archeological sites were thus identified and 3,000 were cataloged, and are quickly accessible through several search levels (by name, location, inventory number, etc…)
The site is currently available in French only, the English, Japanese and Khmer version are still under construction, this is also true about the extension of this program to Khmer archeological sites located in neighboring countries.
The site website is: http://www.cisark.org/
