acknowledgement most published texts on history remain unaltered since the ies and reflect the historiography of the georges coedes era there is no doubt georges coedes is one of the greatest historians for cambodia who has provided lots of pioneering work and lead the way of methodology but since his retirement many new sources in particular great numbers of khmer inscriptions have become available hardly noticed entire sections reviewed in the ies and ies them replaced in turn in the ies and so on however as debate among historians progresses normally archaeology and geo dating getting more and more important publishers of second and third grade resources stubbornly copy the in some cases years old texts