Angkor, The Lost City

Duration: 15

Year Published: 1965

Format: 16mm

Description: Shows the great assembly of sculpture--a whole metropolis of palaces and temples--which stands at Angkor, recovered from the jungle which hid it for centuries. Six hundred monuments reveal the glories of the past empire of the Khmers, Angkor Wat, a temple of grey sandstone almost a mile square, attest to the fact that civilizations are not eternal, but are born, flourish for a time, then pass away.

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