High Middle Ages · Southeast Asia · Culture
1150
Khmer temple decorations at Beng Mealea
1150
The Khmer king Suryavarman II's builders, freed up after the completion of Angkor Wat, began work on satellite temples including Beng Mealea. Its sandstone bas-reliefs of Vishnu and Rama were carved by the same workshops that had decorated the central mausoleum. Today Beng Mealea lies engulfed by jungle, its galleries split by strangler figs whose roots thread through the carved stone like veins through a living body.
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- Suryavarman II completes Angkor Wat · Southeast Asia · Culture
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Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.