Angkor Wat, built in the early twelfth century ... He was also the last king at Angkor to patronize the construction of stone temples dedicated to the Buddha and to Hindu gods. In the thirteenth ...
Restored in the 1940s, the 12th-century Banteay Samre, devoted to the Hindu god Vishnu ... the lotus-shaped towers of Angkor Wat—the most elaborate of the city's temples and the world's largest ...
The collection includes an overall aerial image of Angkor Wat, the crowning glory of the temple ruins from the early 12th century, and photos of gigantic towers with carved faces at the central ...
Interestingly, Wat Phou, which translates to “temple mountain”, predates Angkor Wat ... Wat Phou was initially dedicated to Hindu gods, principally Shiva and Vishnu, but sometime later ...