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Four faced towers in Angkor, Cambodia.

The iconic four faced towers of the Khmer temples in a Cambodian jungle sunset.

The Khmer Empire, the predecessor state to modern Cambodia, was a Hindu-Buddhist empire in Southeast Asia. The empire stretched from the Indochinese Peninsula northward to modern Yunnan in China, and from Vietnam to Myanmar.

Angkor was the site of the capital city during the empire's zenith. Monuments as Angkor Wat or the Bayon bear testimony to the Khmer Empire's immense wealth, art and architectural technique. Angkor, during its peak in the 11th to 13th centuries, was the largest pre-industrial urban centre in the world.

The beginning of the Khmer Empire is dated around 800 with King Jayavarman II. Angkor fell in the 15th century and its temples and cities were claimed by the jungle, only to be rediscovered in the 19th century. The wooden buildings were all gone, but the stone...

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