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Inside Angkor Thom: Baphuon, Phimeanakas, and the Royal Terraces
Beyond the Bayon, the great city hides its quieter corners — a pyramid that took a French archaeologist a lifetime to rebuild, a palace built to please a serpent queen, and a carved gallery that only reappeared when a wall fell down.
Angkor Thom: The Great Walled City That Ruled Southeast Asia
A walled capital larger than any European city of its time, entered through bridges of gods and demons and crowned by a temple of two hundred smiling faces. Angkor Thom is where the Khmer Empire felt like itself.
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