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[2590] False door at Angkor Wat

Here is a typical pattern used on a typical richly ornate false door. Given how various temples were built sometimes a century apart, I found the commonness as mildly surprising. It suggests innovation was really slow.

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But it is pretty nonetheless.

This is at Angkor Wat.

I am unsure of its functions but my readings tell me that an actual door typically face east and the other false doors face the other three cardinal directions.

By Hafiz Noor Shams

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