Travel Reference
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Sights
Stretching around the outside of the central temple complex is an 800m-long series of in-
tricate and astonishing bas-reliefs. The following is a brief description of the epic events
depicted on the panels. They are described in the order in which you'll come to them if
you begin on the western side and keep the bas-reliefs to your left. The majority of them
were completed in the 12th century, but in the 16th century several new reliefs were added
to unfinished panels.
The bas-reliefs at Angkor Wat were once sheltered by the cloister's wooden roof, which
long ago rotted away except for one original beam in the western half of the north gallery.
The other roofed sections are reconstructions.
The Battle of Kurukshetra
BAS-RELIEF
