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Every single section of the bas-relief depicts a story and most of them are about battles in between gods and demons. Mouhot, who visited Angkor Wat in the middle of the 19th century, described the monument as grander than any architectural legacy of the Greeks or Romans. He explained that the temple’s extraordinary building could not be described by a pen and that it was a monument of unparalleled beauty. The temple became recognized to the Western world following one…