Transcription of introduction - Angkor guide
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There are over a hundred major temple sites to be visited in andaround Siem Reap - the religious remains of a series of cities, builtby a succession of kings from around the 7th to the 13th civic and domestic buildings were built in timber and have longsince disappeared, so not much is known about the lives of thecivilians - although some 1,200 inscriptions found throughout theregion and the remains of a vast irrigation system indicate thescale and complexity of the was mainly used for the earlier temples, with increasing usethen being made of laterite, a rust coloured mudstone, and finallyof sandstone, which was quarried mostly from the Kulen hills, 40kilometres to the north-east of Siem Reap.
There are over a hundred major temple sites to be visited in and around Siem Reap - the religious remains of a series of cities, built by a succession of kings from around the 7th to the 13th centuries.
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