High Middle Ages · Southeast Asia · Culture
1134
Angkor Wat nears completion
1134
After a quarter century of labor by tens of thousands of workers quarrying and carving sandstone, Suryavarman II's temple-mountain approached its final majestic form - five lotus-bud towers rising above a rectangular moat nearly a mile wide. Its galleries bore the longest continuous bas-relief on earth, depicting the Churning of the Sea of Milk in nearly two thousand carved figures of astonishing grace.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.