Sorry, not the kind of booty guys think of. I mean booty as in treasure.

During the Oudong period of Cambodia, I read that the Vietnamese had sack the royal palace of Oudong and took home treasure that need to be put in 27 veseels and 70 small boats. (Might I say GODAMN! THAT IS A LOT OF TREASURE!?) And it also said that was a blow that Cambodia never fully recovered from.

Anyway, that makes me wonder, are any of these treasures still in like Vietnam and intact? Are they in museums or anything? I just want to see what they look like.


PLEASE NO FLAMING. This is not meant to be flame bait, I'm just curious.

^Any source(s) to read, Dara?

It probably jacked by the chinese or french

It's in a book called: The Mekong: Turbulent Past, Uncertain Future by Milton Osborne





When did the Chinese invade Vietnam?

By the way, this happened in the 1600s.

^^ Vietnam had to pay tributes to china

Treasures tend to attract the wrong kind attention from the wrong people. I wouldn't be surprised if some of that treasure is collecting dust in some French museum. It certainly ain't in my bank account or safe deposit box.

Very interesting. I'll read it. Thanks Dara.

I know what you meant but this thread made me laugh.

Back to the booty. It was the times of the warring states in Dai Viet.

Most probably the Nguyen Lords shared the booty with their generals and they finally spent it on booze and pretty women.

What do you MEAN, the French don't have it? And to think that we put ourselves at risk and looted it fair and square

So yeah it was justified but what happened not so long ago when Vietnam "liberated" Cambodia and money and other treasures were exported back to Vietnam by the truck load. I guess it was a good gesture from the Cambodians to repay the Vietnamese for "liberating" Cambodia. Pssssshhhh

The French are known for protecting treasures of the past and restauring them, not for looting. In fact, we never knew of any booty or jewelries of any kind. Just too bad.

Only very few things from Angkor Vat, but not many in French museums. So Nguyen Hoang and all his generals and soldiers finally bought all Cambodian girls and the land now SVN with that booty if it really existed.

Wanna see where Cambodia and Champa riches could be now ?
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&...cambodia+museum

Probably after WWII all went to USA... "Winner takes all".

do you have the book dara? or did you read an excerpt of it somewhere online? according to khmer chronicles, the viets also sacked dutch trading posts in phnom penh in 1659..

I rented it from my library. The internet barely has stuff about that period. I already mentioned the title in post #4.

That was a century of great changes, and in China the Manchus (Qing) took power from the Ming in 1644, so there were a lot of Chinese loyalists who fled and settled in Dai Viet to the south in the second half of the seventeenth century. In Dai Viet it was continuous wars until the Tay Son uprising around 1776-1792.

Will Cambodia get out of its 500 years of Dark Ages? we can really wonder..

@Dara,

Was it before or after 1650?

any updates?