Angkor Wat
In Our Time: History
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The Conservation of the Temple at Ancor
The other temples, of which there is about 200 in immediate surroundings, were very badly damaged by overgrowth. The work that the problem at ancor is actually different from the other temples. Because it's exposed, and because it was never engulfed by the jungle the sandstone has been subject to weathering,. So a lot of the reliefs and carvings in the more exposed areas are damaged by naturaler decay, stone decay. That's a balance which has not yet been reached but i think it's on many, many people's minds when near the end.
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