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Travelling: Borobudur Temple, Indonesia

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Source:  https://mgronline.com/travel/detail/9580000061627     Hello, everyone. This is going to be my last post for this semester. Thank you to all of you who came to visited. My today's topic is about Indonesian Arts, I'm just picked t he archaeological attraction that I studied from last lesson. Today, we are going to talk about Borobudur Temple.      Borobudur Temple is located in the central part of Java, about 40 kilometers northwest of Yogyakarta. There was built between the years 1293 - 1393 as a place of worship of Mahayana Buddhism.  In 1991, UNESCO declared Borobudur a World Heritage Site.  It is an architecture influenced by Mahayana Buddhism with the ancient and faith of the Javanese people in the history of the Shailendra reign.     Borobudur  is made of andesite stone, which is a huge volcanic rock, approximately 15 meters high, outside is a lotus shape, which symbolizes Buddhism. As evidenced by history, the Borobud...

Travelling: Mya Thein Tan Pagoda, Myanmar

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  (Source: https://travel.thaiza.com/foreign/471091/ )      Hi everyone! In this week I was studying about Myanmar Arts, there are so many beautiful places where they include Arts and A rchitectures   in Myanmar for me to pick. I chose "Mya Thein Tan" pagoda or known as the Taj mahal of  Irrawaddy river . Let's go and see what we have today.      (Source:  https://www.worldtourcenter.com/uploads/images/dad42302f81d908a8dd3bacc9d1422de.jpg )           Mya Teng Dan Pagoda It is a whole white pagoda with a streaky wave pattern, located in the Irrawaddy River Basin at the part North of Mandalay. This pagoda is also known as Piume Pagoda is part of Mingun city, known as the " Taj Mahal of the Irrawaddy River " Tiny History      The pagoda is white and its body was built in 1816 by King Jakkai Mang, the sixth King of the Kon Bon dynasty. In 1838, the earthquake had ruined the pagoda. Later on, Kin...

Travelling: Museum of Cham Sculpture (Da nang, Vietnam)

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  (Source:  https://blog.airpaz.com/en/tourist-attractions-near-da-nang-airport/danang-museum/ )     Hello there, long time no see. Today's topic is about History  attraction, we are going up Northeast to Vietnam and follwing the trail t race history of Champa Kingdom. I need to tell you that I'm honestly not a big fan of Vietnam, not at all, so it may be hard for to introduce you an interesting travel place for you, however, I chose Museum of Cham Sculpture as a title for this work because I like museum anyway, so let's get start it.      This museum geather various evidence has been collected many exhibits. Most of them are in the form of sculptures carved from stone and bronze.  Cham Sculpture Museum was established by the French Archaeological Research Institute  in 1936. The exhibitions are displayed in different rooms of the four eras according to the origin of civilization, such as Mee Sentra, Cuong Duong and Tapmem. Meanwhile, t...

Travelling: Ta Prohm Temple, Cambodia

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(Pictured by my guide, "Me at Prasat Ta Prohm")      Hi there! Long time no see since wrote the last post about Vishnu's Avatar. Today I came with an excited topic, it's been one year passed since visited Angor wat in Cambodia. I have to write for work again however, this is the topic that I can talk more about it with a story. As you knew I visited Cambodia last year on 18-19 May 2019. I wrote a field note so that why I can remember everythings well and I tell you all I saw in Angor wat. Today's topic is about travelling with a details of Arts History so let's get start it! (Pictured by my guide, "Look at the tree roots")     On Friday 17 May 2019, I emplaned to Bangkok and stayed one night at the hotel before we took a flight to Cambodia. I went there with my mom because she used to visited there once many years ago. The next day I had a moring flight to Siem Reap, Cambodia. We met our private guide, she has a small body and pretty, and her Thai na...

1 of 10 Vishnu avatar: Rama/Ram (7th Avatar)

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  (Source: https://divineinfoguru.com/slokas-mantras/devotional-slokas-songs-mp3/kalyana-rama-lord-rama-songs/ )      Greeting everyone! Today, I came with a bit out of the topic about Achaeology. I studied about Arts history last Tuesday and I started to worked on my blog quite late. Normally, I will finished my blog after class but last 2 weeks past I was so busy doing my university work and taking care of the household. I have no time to relax myself at all. Luckily that I still have time to sleep.      Today's topic is about Arts history and I was studying about one of my favourite myth. Last lesson we studied about Trimurti or you may known as Trinity gods of Hindu, Shiva, Vishnu, and Brahma. My group got a topic about 10 avatars of Vishnu and we need to choose one of the tenth to write about his story. I chose his 7th avatar, Rama or Ram from the legend Ramayana and I really love this story. By the way, in this post I will write the information i...

The world of Archeology: Dendrochronology

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(Picture by my guide, "Me and trees roots at Pra Khan temple ")        Good afternoon! I got to said that today's class was full of exitement as usual. We review the last lesson's topic before we started today's lesson. I learned about archaeological dating and a little bit of Art History. Now it's to writing again, everyone will get four topics and we have to pick only one topic to write on the blog.  I chose topic about how archaeologists study and analyze date of an ancient objects that made from wood by its tree-ring or formally known as Dendrochronology. Let's starting writing. Topics Radio-carbon Dating Tree-ring Dating / Dendrochronology Potassium Argon Dating Stratigraphy     If we think about the age of trees there're so many of them that live longer than us. Some trees even older than our  ancestor. According to the slides from the lesson, it said that tree-ring dating or Dendrochronology is one of the most exaxt way to date the ancien...

The world of Archeology: What do we know about it?

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    (Picture by my guide, "Me at B ayon temple ")        Hi, August! It's been a week since last time we met. Today I have to write an article about Archeology. I need to submit this before 4 O'clock on the afternoon. I have to say that today's class is thrilling! Why? Because I have studied about a little bit of world history and P aleontology. What an excitment! Well now it's about 3:10 on the afternoon I have to be hurry because after this I have to go to Udorn Thani to visit my grandparents (12 August is Thailand's Mother's day and it's my grandpa's Birthday. My mom has a meetig tomorrow so we have to visit them today instead.), so let start!      When we talk about the work of the Archaeologists or the Acheology It's usually reminds me of many movie that contain a great adventure and the most dangerous threats of the Archeologists but, it's not like that. In the real of Acheology, the achaeologists CAN NOT break things or do whate...