At the abandoned city of Koh Ker lays many temples & for three days I had the empty jungle city to myself, this temple was amazing.
Ancient Jungle Temple
Great stuff, once again, MrB
Re the'towers' that may have housed the statues, I found myself wondering if they could have in fact been mausoleums.
Re the'towers' that may have housed the statues, I found myself wondering if they could have in fact been mausoleums.
"Not my circus, not my monkeys" - KiR
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Agreed, we should be able to differentiate the different levels of amazingness.
I'm not overly amazed by buildings erected with the blood of thousands of nameless slaves, but I am amazed by the extent Jayavarman IV's architects fucked up at Koh Ker. That is quite a story, putting a lie to the notion that the builders of these constructions were unfeasible geniuses. They forgot to add adequate spillways over the embankment, focusing too much on the views of the fancy temples and not on the practicalities. As a consequence, the embankment burst in the first flood and the city was abandoned, with J4 scurrying back to Angkor.
Yes, we get it. You're the idler who cames along for the ride and fucks it up for the others. You had something similar to say on another one of MrB's presentations, don't know why you even bother watching them.
