The Baphuon is a temple-mountain in Angkor Thom, in Cambodia, built in the middle of the eleventh century as the state temple of King Udayadityavarman II. It was dedicated to Shiva and stood as a three-tiered pyramid with a tall central sanctuary, linked to a raised causeway. In the fifteenth or sixteenth century, the west side was transformed into a huge reclining Buddha. The temple's sandstone structure was unstable, and in the 1960s French archaeologists began taking it apart stone by stone, planning to rebuild it, but the war and the Khmer Rouge regime destroyed the records of their work. A new restoration project, completed in the 2010s, used the surviving stones and photographs.
Before and after
- 1054SN 1054
- July 1054East-West Schism
- c. 1058Birth of Al-Ghazali
- 1059Construction of Florence Baptistery
- 1060Origins of Baphuon
- 1062Origins of Margat
- from 1065 to 1833Kingdom of Castile
- 1066Construction of Tower of London
- 20 September 1066Battle of Fulford
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The era
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