[PDF] The Mysteries Of Angkor Wat eBook

Author : Richard Sobol
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 36,31 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0763641669

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A guided tour by local children leads the author--and readers--inside an ancient Cambodian temple and around its ruins, where they explore the mysteries of the site and discover a little-known secret. 12,000 first printing.

Author : Eleanor Mannikka
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,11 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Angkor (Extinct city)
ISBN : 9780824823535

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Mannikka takes the reader on a detailed tour of Angkor Wat, moving from the western entrance bridge, across the long causeway to the central galleries, and up to the central tower itself, showing what the design of the temple tells us about Khmer beliefs regarding their king, their deities, and the world around them. Detailed temple plans illustrating measurement patterns and numerous photographs of all parts of the temple accompany the text. Angkor Wat: Time, Space, and Kingship shows clearly the role that astronomy, history, cosmology, and politics can play in determining a structure's format and dimensions. The new methods of architectural analysis pioneered here will serve as a model for architectural historians in Asia and elsewhere.

Author : Michael Falser
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1169 pages
File Size : 26,66 MB
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 3110335840

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This book unravels the formation of the modern concept of cultural heritage by charting its colonial, postcolonial-nationalist and global trajectories. By bringing to light many unresearched dimensions of the twelfth-century Cambodian temple of Angkor Wat during its modern history, the study argues for a conceptual, connected history that unfolded within the transcultural interstices of European and Asian projects. With more than 1,400 black-and-white and colour illustrations of historic photographs, architectural plans and samples of public media, the monograph discusses the multiple lives of Angkor Wat over a 150-year-long period from the 1860s to the 2010s. Volume 1 (Angkor in France) reconceptualises the Orientalist, French-colonial ‘discovery’ of the temple in the nineteenth century and brings to light the manifold strategies at play in its physical representations as plaster cast substitutes in museums and as hybrid pavilions in universal and colonial exhibitions in Marseille and Paris from 1867 to 1937. Volume 2 (Angkor in Cambodia) covers, for the first time in this depth, the various on-site restoration efforts inside the ‘Archaeological Park of Angkor’ from 1907 until 1970, and the temple’s gradual canonisation as a symbol of national identity during Cambodia’s troublesome decolonisation (1953–89), from independence to Khmer Rouge terror and Vietnamese occupation, and, finally, as a global icon of UNESCO World Heritage since 1992 until today.

Author : Kate Siber
Publisher : Wide Eyed Editions
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 45,56 MB
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0711254451

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Set your spirit free on 50 amazing American adventures with this book that show cases the most exciting outdoors activities in each of the 50 states.

Author : Sharon Linnea
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 21,83 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781402739842

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Suspenseful, intriguing, simply irresistible: since its debut just a year ago, Mysteries Unwrapped™ has captivated kids. Even reluctant readers love the appealing, high-interest topics and cool "secret file” design that they just have to open. The newest entry to the series introduces children to some of the world’s most fascinating, but now long-gone, civilizations: - Find out about Ur--a thriving ancient city that disappeared under sand - Learn about the Maya and the lengths they went to to appease the gods - Puzzle out the clues to the legendary lost city of Atlantis - Read the graffiti written on the walls of Pompeii before Vesuvius erupted--and preserved intact - See the city "hidden by the Gods”: Angkor Wat, a Khmer temple and religious center in Cambodia

Author : John Burgess
Publisher :
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,91 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9786164510463

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- Accessible scholarly treatment of one of the world's most iconic sites John Burgess masterfully brings to life the modern history of Cambodia's fabled Angkor temples, from their "discovery" by French explorers in the mid-19th century, through to the latter part of the 20th century, when celebrity visitors included a well publicised one by Jackie Onassis and making Angkor one of the top 3 monuments to visit in the world. An invaluable and riveting book about one of the greatest man-made wonders in the world.

Author : John Burgess
Publisher :
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 19,30 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9786167339252

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As her husband becomes King Suryavarman's closest confidant, Lady Sray fights to hide a secret connection to the king which becomes more complicated when Bopa, her daughter, becomes the king's concubine and Sovan, her son, designs Angkor Wat with a unique architectural vision.

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The Angkor Wat Internet Organization presents information about Angkor Wat, a collection of temples at the ancient city of Angkor in Cambodia. The organization recounts the history of the site and provides information about the mysteries, legends, and anecdotes related to the ruins. Facts, figures, and details about the purposes, design, and architecture of the temples are provided.