Prasat Beng Mealea

This guide to Prasat Beng Mealea near Siem Reap follows an American researcher named Kent Davis, who in March 2006 pushed aside vines at the temple's northwest tower and found a carved celestial devata untouched by centuries of weather, a face a local expert said he had never seen before. Davis returned the following February with his wife to photograph her properly. The guide also traces the temple's history since a real road first opened to visitors in 2003, and the toppled galleries and collapsed sanctuary that still surround it today.