Prasert na Nagara

Best known for his studies of ancient Thai inscriptions, he was formally trained in engineering and statistics, subjects which he taught as a professor at Kasetsart University.

[2][3] Prasert was born in Phrae in Northern Thailand and descended from the family that had ruled in Nakhon Si Thammarat until the 19th century.

Prasert attended the prestigious Suankularb Wittayalai School in Bangkok and won a government scholarship to study agricultural engineering at the University of the Philippines Los Baños, where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 1938.

In the same year, he attended a meeting in Sukhothai which was the first modern archaeological seminar in Thailand and started Prasert's career in Thai history.

Despite his expertise on Sukhothai or early Thai history, he never wrote a whole book on it, rather considering himself the presenter of raw material for other historians to interpret.