Angkor National Museum
Khmer heritage halls holding a twelfth-century rice-ration stele and a glowing gallery of a thousand small Buddha figures.
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This guide to the Angkor National Museum in Siem Reap centers on a single stone slab in the entrance hall, carved with a Sanskrit inscription found lying in the grass at Preah Khan temple by a French conservator in November 1939. You'll hear how its cramped verses amount to a twelfth-century supply list drawn up under King Jayavarman the Seventh, and what that list reveals about the theology behind feeding a kingdom's gods. The guide moves on into the museum's glowing Gallery of a Thousand Buddhas, each figure once fed with incense rather than rice.
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