30 Facts About Angkor—The Ancient Mega-City ‘Covered’ In Thousands of Ancient Temples

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30 Facts About Angkor—The Ancient Mega-City ‘Covered’ In Thousands of Ancient Temples

by Ivan


Angkor, the lost city of the ancient kingdom of Cambodia

The first actual reports in Europe of today’s famous Angkor Wat temples dates back to 1601 when a Spanish Franciscan named Marcelo de Ribadeneyra mentioned it in a book as “a great city in the kingdom of Cambodia,” with “curiously carved walls” and “large buildings of which only ruins remained.”


The information had come to him from Spanish and Portuguese missionaries who came to Longvek, the capital of the kingdom of Cambodia, a few kilometers north of Phnom Penh.

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