AK YOM TEMPLE OF CAMBODIA

AK YUM TEMPLE

Ak Yom temple is located in the south of western Baray, approximately  as kilometre before the western end .

Ak Yum temple is the earliest known temple mountain architectural design. inscriptions indicate that a temple dedicated to the Hindu.it it located in the southern of western Baray. Ak Yum is regarded as a oldest Ankor ruin in the area. During the construction of the west Baray,which is located immediately to the north of it,part of Ak Yum was built over.it is not certain which khmer king was built this monument.Ak Yum were re-used during the reign of Jayavarman I.similarly,the ruins as visible today was built over the original structure..

This temple,a little to way of the major monuments of Ankor is not of great interest for a tourist,but is archaeologically very important. inscription indicate the first construction to this temple in 609,which makes of him the oldest pre-Ankorian vesting found at  this that. it was located on the road first Ankor and was partially buried during the construction of Phnom Bakheng,

This temple is also the first prototype of mountain temple,concept largely included thereafter in the various Ankorian construction. because of its stranding, the release of Ak Yum was considerable work,it was even necessary to dynamite part of dam to discover it completely .

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