Ancient Angkor Wat
June 23rd 2009 "One of these temples—a rival to that of Solomon, and erected by some ancient Michelangelo—might take an honourable place beside our most beautiful buildings. It is grander than anything left to us by Greece or Rome, and presents a sad contrast to the state of barbarism in which the nation is now plunged."
By Henry Mouhot, a French explorer who visited Angkor in the year of 1858 - 60
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