Angkor Visionary Art & Eclectic PhotographAt the height of its power, in the 12th century, the kingdom of Angkor controlled a large part of what is now Cambodia, Thailand, Burma, Laos and Vietnam. The Angkor kings oversaw a building program between the 9th and 16th centuries that even today is breathtaking in scale and audacity. Angkor Wat is the biggest and most famous of these monuments but hundreds of others also survived. This is unfortunately typical of a country that is now judged to be one of the most corrupt in the world. Even some of the locals call it Scambodia
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Apart from cultural elements and religious beliefs of Hinduism and Buddhism from India, the Funanese natives seem to learn the engineering skill as well. |
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