Frenchman Henri Mouhot rediscovered which Cambodian religious monument in 1860?
Henri Mouhot he and other Western explorers and missionaries had visited Angkor Wat and the other Khmer temples at least five years before Mouhot. Father Bouillevaux published his accounts in 1857: ""Travel in Indochina 1848–1846, The Annam and Cambodia"". Previously, a Portuguese trader Diogo do Couto visited Angkor and wrote his accounts about it in 1550, and the Portuguese monk Antonio da Magdalena had also written about his visit to Angkor Wat in 1586. Mouhot did, however, popularise Angkor in the West. Perhaps none of the previous European visitors wrote as evocatively as Mouhot, who included interesting and detailed sketches. In his
Henri Mouhot a turtle; and "Oligodon mouhoti", a snake. Mouhot's travel journals are immortalized in "Voyage dans les royaumes de Siam, de Cambodge, de Laos et autres parties centrales de l'Indochine" (published 1863, 1864). English title: "Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China, Cambodia and Laos During the Years 1858,1859, and 1860." Henri Mouhot Henri Mouhot (May 15, 1826 — November 10, 1861) was a French naturalist and explorer of the mid-19th century. He was born in Montbéliard, Doubs, France - near the Swiss border, but spent his childhood in Russia and possibly, parts of Asia. He died near Naphan, Laos. He