Prasat Beng Mealea
Jungle-swallowed twelfth-century temple mirroring Angkor Wat's layout, its towers still wrapped in roots and vines.
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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.
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