^ 200 Road systems in the service of empires have long inspired archaeologists and ancient historians alike. Using etymology, textual analysis and archaeology the author deconstructs the road system of the Khmer, empire builders of early historic Cambodia. Far from being the creation of one king, the road system evolved organically to serve expeditions, pilgrimages and embedded exchange routes ...

Etymology: from the Greek word "semeion" ("sign") Semiotics is a field of research that studies signs as an essential part of cultural life and communication. According to semiotics, we can only know culture (and reality itself) by means of signs, in other words, through the processes of signification. Semiotics has two founders: the Swiss linguist Ferdinand de Saussure (died 1913) and the Amer...