High Middle Ages · Southeast Asia · Culture
1150
Suryavarman II completes Angkor Wat
1150
On the Cambodian plain, after about forty years of labor, the Khmer king's funerary temple was completed. Bas-reliefs unrolling for nearly half a mile showed the churning of the ocean of milk and Suryavarman reviewing his armies. It was the largest religious structure ever built. Its moat, over five kilometers in perimeter, created a cosmological diagram visible from the air, mapping the Hindu universe in water and stone.
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Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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