Angkor Wat reflected in its surrounding moat at sunrise, with the central towers silhouetted against the sky. The temple's east-west orientation produces a
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Angkor Wat reflected in its surrounding moat at sunrise, with the central towers silhouetted against the sky. The temple's east-west orientation produces a spectacular equinox alignment, and its layout has been proposed to encode the precession of the equinoxes.
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