Khu Bua
Coordinates: 13 ° 29 ′ 13 ″ N , 99 ° 50 ′ 12.5 ″ E
Khu Bua (also: Mueang Khu Bua , Thai เมือง โบราณ คู บัว - "Mueang Boran Khu Bua": Old City of the Lotus Trench ) is an archaeological site in the district of Mueang Ratchaburi , Ratchaburi Province in the central region of Thailand .
Khu Bua has been known since the 6th century and was a capital of Dvaravati , a political and cultural network of Buddhist city-states of the Mon in what is now central Thailand.
The excavation area is about twelve kilometers southeast of Ratchaburi , it forms a rectangle about 800 meters by 2,000 meters and is surrounded by an earthen wall and a moat. So far, 44 archaeologically interesting sites have been found here and outside the walls. The largest of these is formed by the foundation walls of Wat Khlong Suwanna Khiri.
The most important excavations took place between 1957 and 1961. The findings contained predominantly figurines from ceramic , representations of the Buddhist wheel and plates of stone. Today the finds can be seen in the Ratchaburi and Bangkok National Museums . There is also a small museum next to Wat Khlong.
literature
- Dhida Saraya: (Sri) Dvaravati . Mueang Boran Publ. 1999. ISBN 9789747381344 .