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Kingdom of Cambodia - History of Angkor Wat














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For hundreds of years, the lost city of angkor was itself a legend.
Cambodian peasants living on the edge of the thick jungle around the Tonle Sap lake 
reported findings which puzzled the French colonialists who arrived in Indo-China in
 the 1860s. The peasants said they had found "temples built by gods or by giants".
Their stories were casually dismissed as folktales by the pragmatic Europeans. Yet some
 did believe that there really was a lost city of a Combodian empire which had once been
 powerful and wealthy, but had crumbled many years before.

Henri Mahout`s discovery of the Angkor temples in 1860 opened up this `lost city` to the
 world. The legend became fact and a stream of explorers, historians and archaeologists
 came to Angkor to explain the meaning of these vast buildings. The earliest of these scholars
 could not believe that Angkor had been built by the Cambodian people, believing the temples
 to have been built by another race who had conquered and occupied Cambodia meybe 2000 years
 before. Gradually, some of the mysteries were explained, the Sanskrit inscriptions deciphered
 and the history of Angkor slowly pieced toghter, mainly by French scholars in the late 19th 
 and early 20th centuries.


DVD Features:
Menu: Yes
Available Audio Tracks: DD 5.1 / DTS
Main Language: Engels 
Subs : Engels / Chinese
Disc Format: DVD 5 
Bron : ReTail DVD
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