The Art of Building Angkor

The buildings were composed of elaborately decorated sandstone. The numerous channels of the plant workers were used also to transport the huge stones with rafts. For the construction of the blocks have been processed with special grinding equipment so that they could be stable with no obvious gaps.

The entire area measures, including the moat in the east-west direction, and nearly 1.5 kilometers in the north-south direction just less than 1.3 kilometers. The moat is 170 to 190 meters wide and encloses the inner area. It is possible with the current interpretation of the primeval ocean, which he fits together with the numerous buildings of the temple complex in the image of a symbolic universe. The centerpiece was a prominent stamp with five stands) to lotus-shaped tower (Prasat. The largest tower is 65 meters high.

Many of the temple walls are decorated with stone figures that represent the dancers - so-called Apsaras -. Each character has its own special characteristics, so that they are not identical to each other.