The ruins of a temple at Angkor (IMAGE)

University of Sydney

The ruins of a temple at Angkor

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The 12th century CE temple of Preah Khan, one of hundreds of ritual and administrative spaces in the urban core of Angkor in modern Cambodia that were progressively abandoned during the 14th and 15th centuries, coincident with period of intense drought.

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Daniel Penny.

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