These include early sketches and photographs of the structures and the wider environment. Second, historians rely on European, especially French, accounts of nineteenth-century Cambodia. This body of inscriptions attests to the existence of an expansive corpus of scientific, educational, historical, epic, and religious literature (Jacques 2002), but the vast majority of the texts that once circulated on the perishable sheaves of the fan-palm leaf (Borassus flabellifer) no longer survive. Almost 1,300 Sanskrit and ancient Khmer inscriptions in stone have been found in territories that were once claimed by the Khmer empire.
First, there are the Sanskrit and Old Khmer inscriptions, which offer a glimpse into the political, economic, and social life of city. These sources fit broadly into five categories.
Any reconstruction of Angkor starts from the limited source base which provides the historical scaffolding for the virtual project.
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