Angkor Wat: Chinese graffiti causes stir

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The foreign letters written on the stones of the Angkor Wat temple were written during the 17th century and before the 1990s and there are no recent letters written by foreigners, the Apsara Authority has said. The clarification from the Apsara Authority came after a local media website reported that Facebook users criticised the Apsara Authority for failing to track down the Chinese nationals that wrote Chinese characters on the Angkor Wat temple.

 

The Apsara Authority said in a statement that the Facebook users had a lack of understanding. Apsara Authority spokesman Long Kosal said the letters written by foreigners on the stone wall of Angkor Wat were not recent, but old letters that many national foreigners wrote a long time ago.

“The statement by Facebook users criticising that there were Chinese nationals who wrote Chinese characters on the stones of the temple is not true. It is not a new case,” he said. According to the Apsara Authority statement, foreign script on the stone walls were registered and studied by the Apsara Authority’s inscription study team since 2002. Those foreign scripts included Japanese, Chinese, Burmese, French and Vietnamese, and were all considered by researchers to be graffiti.

 

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[khunPer]

Those impolite Chinese tourists again...?

–even in the 17th century...?

[oldrunner]

Better late than never when the news is slow. Dig up some old stuff as a filler. How about all those hard-to-remove stickers all over Pattaya monuments, trees, leafs, etc..?

[Expatthailover]

1 hour ago, oldrunner said:

Better late than never when the news is slow. Dig up some old stuff as a filler. How about all those hard-to-remove stickers all over Pattaya monuments, trees, leafs, etc..?

Stickers all over leafs ( sic )

Seriously?