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Scholarship, particular Prince Maha Vajiravudhl’s Story of an Excursion to the Cities of King Ruang, has traditionally placed most of the major monuments in the Sukhothai and Si Satchanalai Historical Parks within the so-called “Sukhothai period (c. 1220-1438).” However, these conclusions were reached purely through educated guesses based on the correlation of the monuments of Sukhothai, Sawankhalok, and Kamphaeng Phet with literature the researchers read, as opposed to concrete evidence. Simultaneously, natural and man–made factors that contributed to the deterioration of buildings were ignored. Furthermore, it was understood that Sukhothai and Si Satchanalai were abandoned after 1438 when the Sukhothai Kingdom became the Ayudhyan province despite reliable sources, including documentation by numerous seventeenth–century European travelers of the cities, suggesting otherwise. This article aims to provide a brief review of this erroneous historiography of Sukhothai art and architecture of Sukhothai, outlining the falsehoods in conclusions that were reached through research methodology relying on supposititious correlation.