Memot is a border district and the city of Tây Ninh in Vietnam is 80 kilometres (50 mi) away by road.

The Memotian culture is the name given to a series of archaeological sites found in Memot and across the border in Vietnam.

[5] In 1959, French archaeologist Louis Malleret first described a series of 17 circular earthworks, each with an outer wall and an inner ditch.

He reported this new category of prehistoric sites in the red soil region east of the Mekong in what was then part of Kampong Cham Province and in Vietnam.

The Memot Circular Earthworks span across the red soil region of eastern Cambodia and the border of Vietnam.

[8] In 2010 another site, "Samrong Circular Earthwork", was unintentionally destroyed by bulldozers to make way for low-cost housing.