descriptions of Angkor were published in serial format in Tour du Monde in Europe.

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Archaeological Sites in Indochina

Other nineteenth-century expeditions also shed light on Cambodia’s archaeological legacy. One of these was the Mekong Exploration Commission’s expedition from Saigon up the Mekong River to southern China in 1866, headed by Francis Garnier and Capt. Doudart de Lagrée. Its goals were to find a navigable route from Cochin China to Yunnan and to explore commercial possibilities in the tea and silk markets of southern China. However, the Mekong expedition also included a ten-day survey of the Angkor region. Expedition members copied ancient Khmer inscriptions and took stone sculptures back to france.