Victory Gate
Twelfth-century city gate lined by giant stone gods and demons hauling a serpent across the moat.
This guide to Victory Gate in Siem Reap traces one stone head among the fifty-four devas that once lined the causeway into Jayavarman the Seventh's twelfth-century capital, missing until archaeologists lifted it from the ground in May twenty twenty-four. It follows the market that carried looted Angkor faces from Cambodian villagers through Thai dealers to Western auction houses, and the wildly different sums each link in that chain took home. Stand at the row of scowling asuras and serene devas locked in their tug of war over the stone serpent, and look for how many of their faces are replicas rather than survivors.
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