Angkor Wat

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Angkor Wat has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including The Joe Rogan Experience. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.

What people said

Coppersmith theorizes that Khmer kings first claimed pre-existing pyramids and temples, making the finest structures in Cambodia the oldest.
“So all of the coolest stuff in Cambodia is the oldest”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2528 - Cassie Coppersmith (Jul 21, 2026) · Listen from 1:22:02
Coppersmith cites wood in repaired sections of the Bakong pyramid dating older than the pyramid's accepted date as a problem for the official chronology.
“The wood samples in the repaired sections of Bakong are from the 600s”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2528 - Cassie Coppersmith (Jul 21, 2026) · Listen from 1:15:16
Coppersmith speculates that Angkor's vast reservoir and channel systems were built to treat or structure water rather than merely for rice farming.
“I personally think it had something to do with how they were treating the water”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2528 - Cassie Coppersmith (Jul 21, 2026) · Listen from 1:07:48
Coppersmith argues that Cambodian inscriptions record dedications rather than construction, so archaeologists overreach in attributing temples to kings.
“the archaeologists make a fairly big jump between what the kings actually wrote and saying, well, this king must have built this”
The Joe Rogan Experience: #2528 - Cassie Coppersmith (Jul 21, 2026) · Listen from 22:51

#2528 - Cassie Coppersmith
The Joe Rogan Experience · Jul 21, 2026 · 2 h 40 min
Joe Rogan and researcher Cassie Coppersmith discuss anomalous ancient artifacts and sites in China, India, Cambodia and Egypt and argue the conventional archaeological timeline is wrong.