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Later this year we are getting a series on Angkor: A Clash of Gods!

Between the years of 1100-1200 CE, roughly 0.1% of Earth's population was supported by the city of Angkor. It was a marvel. A place where the Khmer god-kings quarried huge blocks of stone thirty miles away, and floated them to construction sites via specially-excavated canals. But these temples were anything but serene. With a royal family split between the worship of Shiva, Vishnu, and Buddha, changes in leadership often meant alteration and iconoclastic destruction. But Angkor would survive these desecrations—as it would the fall of the Khmer. From its first visit by Portuguese clergy in 1586, to the looting of French colonials, to the machine gun damage of the Khmer Rouge, Angkor survived—inspiring and shaping the modern conception of the lost city.