Angkor, the lost city
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✎ Suggest a correctionShows 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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Noel StoneArt Commentator (Pierre L'Amare, director); photographers, Don Wilder, Roger Moride, Roy Nolan
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Angkor - a whole metropolis of palaces and temples recovered from the jungle which hid them for centuries until discovered in 1860 by a French naturalist. Monuments, picture tapestries in stone and Angkor Vat, a mile square temple of grey sandstone which no other church has rivalled in size, reveal the glories of the past empire of the Khmers, ancestors of the Cambodians.
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