 Indeed, the name "Funan" itself is an artifact of the Chinese histories, and does not appear in the paleographic record of ancient Vietnam or Cambodia.From the Chinese sources, however, it can be determined that a polity called "Funan" by the Chinese was the dominant polity located in the Mekong Delta region.As a result, archeological discoveries in that region that can be dated to the period of Funan have been identified with the historical polity of Funan.