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Angkor Wat, photographed on 9 September 2022. This present-day view records a surviving monument, not the full extent or original condition of the Khmer cities.
Picture source & rightsSatdeep Gill / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Existing crop resized and converted to WebP; derivative under the same licence · Licence terms

Asia / Empire

Angkor: Khmer cities, water and religious change

Cambodia’s history includes centuries of Khmer urban life before the twentieth-century catastrophes. Angkor connects monumental temples with water infrastructure, agriculture and changing religious traditions.

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