housands of people visit Angkor Wat (known as the city of temples in the Khmer language) each year. A massive complex of ancient temples built by the Khmer Kingdom some 900 years ago, each of the many temples built in this “city of the gods” were built by Khmer kings . These kings seemed to be in a competition to outdo their ancestors with the grandness and scale of their temple projects, each reign progressively becoming more grand than the last. The competition effectively ended with Suryavarman II when he had the massive Angkor Wat built which today remains the largest religious structure in the world.
