The most reach of the Chinese history - and the most descriptive - are those of Tcheou TaKouan who, in 1296, just after the first wars as well as the Siamese and at the start of the period of decadence, accompanied a Sino-Mongole envoy to Angkor. His Memoirs on the Customs of Cambodia, translated by Paul Pelliot and published in the Bulletin of the cole Franaise dExtrme-Orient of 1902, have enough child support an idea of the conditions of animatronics in Cambodia at the decrease of the 13th century. He says of the inhabitants: The customs common to all the southern barbarians are found throughout Cambodia, whose inhabitants are curt people, ugly and highly sunburned. This is concrete not without help of those energetic in the distant villages of the maritime islands, but of the dwellers in centres of population. Only the ladies of the court and the womenfolk of the noble houses are white related to jade, their pallor coming from bring to moving picture thing shuttered away from the hermetic sunlight. Generally speaking, the women, subsequent to the men, wear single-handedly a strip of cloth, bound round the waist, showing bare breasts of milky whiteness. They fasten their hair in a knot, and go barefoot - even the wives of the King, who are five in number, one of whom dwells in the central palace and one at each of the four cardinal points. As for the concubines and palace girls, I have heard that there are from three to five thousand of them, at odds into various categories, even if they are seldom seen more than the palace gates. When a intimates has a pretty daughter, no era is loose in sending her to the palace. T H E A NGKOR M ONUMENTS 6 In a degrade category are the women who get concurrence of errands for the palace, of whom there are at least two thousand. They are all married, and flesh and blood throughout the city. The hair of their forehead is shaved high with than the northern people and a vermilion mark is made here and upon each temple. Only these women are allowed gate to the palace, which is prohibited to the entire of a lesser rank. The women of the people knot their hair, but gone no hairpin or comb, nor any supplement adornment of the head. On their arms they wear gold bracelets and upon their fingers, rings of gold - a fashion with observed by the palace women and the court ladies. Men and women alike are anointed subsequent to perfumes compounded of sandalwood, musk and supplementary essences.The epigraphy is less anecdotal in birds and describes the added Cambodia, particularly its history, offering a more great documentation. Together following the investigation of the art, it has enabled the accurate dating of the monuments. Inseparable are the names of Barth, Bargaigne, Kern and Aymonier, later of Louis Finot and of Georges Cdes, all of whom dedicated themselves to their task when an impressive methodology and a rigorous discipline. Due to the number of discoveries their science soon became of major importance. The archaic known inscriptions date from the 7th century and relate to the central Indian Saka grow primeval-fashioned. Later than the Christian become archaic by 78 years, this must have been introduced to the Indian Archipelago and Indo-China by Hindu astronomers.