Angkor Wat
Beesker recommends 'The Angkor Guide' as the world's
best website on Angkor Wat, Cambodia
ABOUT 'THE ANGKOR GUIDE'
The
Angkor Guide website is based on an
English translation of Maurice Glaze's definitive and popular 1944 guide to the
monuments of Angkor Wat, Cambodia. It is fully illustrated with historic and contemporary
photographs, and is available free online.
Angkor Wat is the best known of more than a hundred spectacular monuments that
are scattered over an area of three hundred square kilometres in northern
Cambodia. They are the religious remains of a series of cities built from the
seventh to the thirteenth centuries by a succession of kings. The civilian and
domestic buildings were made of timber and have long since been destroyed, but
signs do remain of the massive irrigation system which supported large scale
rice production and produced a remarkable culture.