Cultural Legacies of Ancient Civilizations - Khmers (VIDEO)

Cultural Legacies of Ancient Civilizations - Khmers - Creating Heaven on Earth

The Khmer Empire, now modern Cambodia, was largely unknown until the nineteenth-century discovery of the ruins of Angkor Wat, an astonishing temple complex. Long abandoned, its huge and beautiful symmetry reveals it as an attempt to create a Hindu concept of Heaven, here on earth.

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