Restoration Work on Angkor Wat Due
Cambodian and Indian experts will begin restoring the 12th-Century Angkor Wat temple complex in Cambodia in October, the official Cambodian news agency SPK reported Tuesday.
War, vandalism and neglect have ravaged the complex and halted previous restoration work.
The temple, one of the world’s largest religious structures, was built from 1113 to 1150 near Angkor, the capital of the Khmer Empire.
“The Kampuchean (Cambodian) and Indian teams will together work in this field and it will be a symbol of our good cooperation,” A.K. Pandey, India’s charge d’affaires in Phnom Penh, was quoted as saying by the news agency in a dispatch monitored in Bangkok.
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