So I visited the Ayutthaya Kingdom city ruins today and also the historical museum where they keep most of the gold. I took lots of photographs.

We didn’t get to visit all the temples as there’s hundreds everywhere all over the modern city of Ayutthaya but we saw some of the good stuff. I was amazed.

Anymore fans of this once powerful nation?

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Posting some photos of the runes first. They had great architectural style with both Khmer Persian and European influences. And these guys REALLY worshipped Buddha. Like REALLY. I read where they believed whoever built the most temples and Buddha statues was the most blessed. They surely tried to become the next Buddha.

>>17863008 (OP)
The most impressive thing about Continental SEA, for me. Is that every country in the region has at least one massive Hindu-era Ritual-Urban complex that everyone just kind of left. Not even really forgot like in Maritime SEA, just left to moulder. It's an insane region.

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Ayuthaya is Buddhist

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It’s pretty insane how they built a modern city on top of this incredibly esoteric almost demonic looking ruins and people just go about their daily lives. There’s random temples all over the city discounting the main terrace where the city walls are. And you can literally just walk in and pick up and take a piece of the ruins home with you if you want. but people clearly don’t. They are pretty respectful.

Inside the main temple walls there’s literally a line of 500 ruined Buddha statues that are all smashed to pieces because their heads were originally stuffed full of gold. So when Ayutthaya was sacked by Burma they destroyed everything and took all the gold. Originally these structures were gold plated too.

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I’m sorry guys idk why some of these images don’t flip. New 4chan sucks. I’m also posting from Thailand right now so no computer on me.

You can freely walk on 99% of the ruins. Only very few ruins are blocked off due to structural damage and threat of it falling down. And also the main crypts of the center temple are blocked off. But you can get into the third floor. Also co starring in this thread is my wife. Be nice to her pls.

Comfy
You can actually go into this one on the third floor. There’s a fuckton of bats in there beware. The bottom levels are cordoned off.

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Pic rel. the bats.

I know the ruins are kind of boring guys. We will get the museum soon with the hoard of eastern treasures. It was totally amazing and almost nobody was there. Photography was forbidden but I snuck some shots in.

Okay moving on to the museum. Most of these items were found in an uncovered crypt after a gang of thieves dug under the main temple. They plundered it and eventually got caught and some items were recovered. This sword “the Ayutthaya sword of victory” was left behind by the thieves.

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More photos soon guys. Just know they LOVED their gold and Buddha

Whay would Buddha think if he saw this shit, especially at its peak?

>>17863032
>Originally these structures were gold plated
Bullshit

>>17863334
I don't think he would mind very much. Maybe lightly admonish them.
>>17863008 (OP)
After doing some light reading on this I'm flabergasted upon learning that this city was contemporaneous with Louis XIV

>>17863342
It's just gold plating anon, that's not unbelievable

>>17863342
Yeah they looked like this. Found in the crypt of the main temple.

Also, sorry guys I had a lot more photos just got caught up with BS

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Literally everything was gold. Cups. Utensils. Whatever.

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Post more tmrw im sleepy

>>17863349
>After doing some light reading on this I'm flabergasted upon learning that this city was contemporaneous with Louis XIV
A lot of the structured pictured here are in the early Ayutthaya style, built around the mid 14th (when the city was founded)-early 15th c. Although the city itself was continuously inhabited until the mid 18th c. when it was sacked by the Burmese and the capital was moved to Bangkok.

>>17863008 (OP)
thanks anon how old are these ruins btw