There are two notable complexes of ancient temples in Southeast Asia, single by the side of Bagan in Burma, the other by the side of Angkor in Cambodia. The temples of Angkor, built by the Khmer civilization linking 802 and 1220 AD, embody single of humankind's on the whole astonishing and continuing architectural achievements. From Angkor the Khmer kings ruled greater than a vast domain so as to reached from Vietnam to cups to the Bay of Bengal. The structures single sees by the side of Angkor at present, more than 100 deseed temples in all, are the surviving remains of a entire religious, social and administrative city whose other buildings - palaces, community buildings, and houses - were built of wood and allow long since moldy and disappeared.

