High Middle Ages · Southeast Asia · Culture
1032
Khmer artisans carve Baphuon temple at Angkor
1032
Under Suryavarman I's patronage, Khmer builders began raising the Baphuon, a massive sandstone temple-mountain at the center of the royal city of Angkor Thom. Its walls were covered with intricate bas-reliefs depicting scenes from Hindu mythology and daily Khmer life, from rice harvests to cockfights to processions of war elephants laden with soldiers.
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Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.