Angkor Wat, Cambodia is one of the greatest temples of the ancient temples in Southeast Asia. The temples of Angkor were built by the Khmer civilization between 802 and 1220 AD. The Angkor Wat, Cambodia represents one of mankind's most astounding and enduring architectural creations. From Angkor the Khmer kings reigned over a vast realm that reached from Vietnam to China to the Bay of Bengal. The structures one sees at Angkor today, comprising more than 100 stone temples in all, are the surviving remnants of a grand religious, social and administrative metropolis whose other buildings like palaces, public buildings and houses, were built of wood and are long since corroded and disappeared.
The geographical location of the Angkor Angkor Wat, Cambodia complex and the arrangement of its temples were based on a planet-spanning holy geography from ancient times. Both the layout of the Angkor temples and iconographic nature of much its monument, particularly the asuras (‘demons’) and devas (‘deities’) are also anticipated to signify the celestial phenomenon of the precession of the equinoxes and the slow evolution from one astrological age to another.
At the temple of Phnom Bakheng in Angkor Wat, Cambodia there is 108 surrounding towers. The number 108 is regarded as sacred in both Hindu and Buddhist cosmologies. Another baffling fact about the Angkor complex is its location 72 degrees of longitude east of the Pyramids of Giza. The temples of Bakong, Prah Ko and Prei Monli at Roluos, south of the main Angkor complex, are placed in relation to each other in a way such that they mirror the three stars in the Corona Borealis as they appeared at dawn on the spring equinox in 10,500 BC. The most interesting fact is that the Corona Borealis was not visible from these temples during the 10th and 11th centuries when they were constructed.