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Art of Asia
Course: Art of Asia > Unit 8
Lesson 2: Cambodia- Angkor Wat
- Angkor Thom, The Great City
- The Bayon: A temple with many faces
- Angkor (UNESCO/TBS)
- The Looting of Cambodian Antiquities
- The scourge of looting: trafficking antiquities, from temple to museum
- Sotheby's Returns Looted 10th Century Statue to Cambodia
- The Hindu deities Shiva and Parvati
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Angkor (UNESCO/TBS)
Angkor is one of the most important archaeological sites in South-East Asia. Stretching over some 400 km2, including forested area, Angkor Archaeological Park contains the magnificent remains of the different capitals of the Khmer Empire, from the 9th to the 15th century. They include the famous Temple of Angkor Wat and, at Angkor Thom, the Bayon Temple with its countless sculptural decorations. UNESCO has set up a wide-ranging programme to ... Source: UNESCO TV / © TBS Produced by TBS Supported by Sony URL: http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/668/.
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why is it called "Angkor Wat"?(1 vote)
The modern name, Angkor Wat, means "Temple City" or "City of Temples" in Khmer;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angkor_Wat
Angkor, meaning "city" or "capital city", is a vernacular form of the word nokor (នគរ), which comes from the Sanskrit word nagara (Devanāgarī: नगर).[5] Wat is the Khmer word for "temple grounds", also derived from Sanskrit vāṭa (Devanāgarī: वाट), meaning "enclosure".[6](2 votes)
Did any major historical events happen at Angkor?(1 vote)- not much,but several people came to worship the Buddha,and thanks to the French,it is now a major tourist attraction.(1 vote)
When was this made, and I wonder about the music.(1 vote)- If not the tune, at the very least, the orchestration was not contemporaneous with the construction of the temple complexes.(1 vote)