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The Temples of Angkor |
Angkor Wat
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Western
Baray |
Phnom Bakeng
* |
Angkor Thom |
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Baksei Chamkrong |
Banteay Kdei
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Banteay
Samre |
Banteay Srey |
Banyon Temple |
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Chau Say Tevoda
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Neak Pean |
Northern and Southern Khleangs (967 A.D.) |
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Phimeanakas |
Prasat Kravan
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Pre Rup
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Preah
Pallilay |
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The Roluos Group |
Srah Srang
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Ta Keo * |
Ta Nei
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Ta Prohm
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Ta Som |
Tep Pranan |
Terrace of the Elephants
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Terrace of
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A part from the book 'Heaven's Mirror'
by Graham Hancock about Angkor:
'Nevertheless, several extremely important and, we would have thought, glaringly obvious parts of the puzzle do still remain completely unsolved. These include:
1. an explanation for the amazing suddenness with which the sacred domain of Angkor was brought to life at the beginning of the ninth century AD;
2. an explanation for why it was developed so methodically and so industriously, at such vast expense, for approximately 420 years;
3. an explanation for why this staggering and unprecedented burst of temple-building, greater in magnitude and quality than anything in India, took place in a remote backwater of rural Cambodia; and
4. an explanation for why all new temple-building at Angkor suddenly ceased in the thirteen century after the death of Jayavarman VII and never resumed - even though the site continued to be occupied until at least the sixteenth century.
The notion that the rulers of Angkor were working to an imported mater-plan that they were for some reason obliged to fulfill within a specific time-frame provides a complete explanation for all of these mysteries. ' -- Graham Hancock - Heaven's Mirror
Two young ladies selling
t-shirts in front
of an
Angkor
temple in Siem Reap, Cambodia. -
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The Editor
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