Throughout a latest excavation, a staff of archaeologists looking the construction of Angkor Thom’s iconic Royal Palace in Cambodia for fallen stones found one thing much more worthwhile: 12 sandstone “door guardian” statues. Cambodia’s APSARA Nationwide Authority, the federal government company that manages the Angkor Archaeological Park, introduced the findings in a latest assertion.
“Specialists consider these door guardian statues exemplify the Khneang Type, aligning with the development interval of the Eleventh-century palace,” Chhay Phanny, spokesperson to APSARA Nationwide Authority, writes within the assertion translated into English.
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