The "Main Temple", the one you must visit before all others.....on the national flag, etc. Resemblances to Indian temples at roughly the same time ...Khajurao...are very striking. And like the Mayans...also contemporaries in another continent...the main altar is at the center of the temple complex, raised very high with quite steep steps. From the top a commanding view of all of creation as far as the eye could see.... across a relentlessly flat terrain. Once the... dominant empire of Southeast Asia, the Khmer were eventually squeezed into an ever smaller territory by neighboring Thailand and Vietnam until they disappeared as an empire..
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