How is Angkor Wat Still Standing Today?
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- The engineering masterpiece is strikingly tall and covers an area four times larger than the Vatican City. But without the surrounding moat, the structure would never have survived.
From: ANGKOR REVEALED: The Hidden Megacity
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I typed out the transcript for this video. I'm just posting it here incase anyone wants to use it.
Angkor what was an engineering Masterpiece. Everything that Khmer had learned over hundreds of years of temple building and Engineering Great Water Projects came together in the construction of the jewel of their civilization. Most striking of all was the scale of the construction. Angkor Wat covers an area more than 4 times larger than the Vatican City. And this created huge challenges for Suryavarman's engineers. During the monsoon the land becomes saturated and expands. After the monsoon, it dries out and contracts. Laterite was a core building material of all Khmer temples stretching right back to the Rong Chen temple in the Kulan Hills. Now it was being used to help solve the Khmer's greatest engineering challenge. "How do you build high with such heavy material as the sandstone. Well, look behind the facade, and what do you see? You see that it's filled with this very lightweight porous material called laterite. It's a kind of ancient breeze-block." But Richard Englehardt thinks that the use of laterite was only part of the solution. He believes that Angkor Wat is still standing today because of the water surrounding the great temple. "In the ideal Khmer structure, you cannot separate the building from the moat. They are inextricable. They are symbiotic and you cannot have one without the other. Both in the terms of the design and the conception of what we're building and the civil engineering features of it. The construction of the moat surrounding Angkor Wat was a huge operation. It's estimated laborers removed enough enough silt and sand to fill the Empire State building one and a half times. It's perimeter is over 3 miles and it is 650 ft wide. Then, the moat fills with water. Water is heavier. It's more dense than laterite and earth. So the weight of the water is actually heavier than the weight of the materials you've taken out. Richard believes the weight of the water in the moat pushes back against the downward force of the Stone Temple. The moat is essential to the success of the entire structure. Without the moat, the structure could not stand. The two are completely part of one holistic engineering system.
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OMG THANK YOU SOSOOSO MUCH
Thank you so much
My beautiful Angkor Wat, from Siem Reap, Cambodia.
Truly amazing! Such extensive, elaborate & ornate depiction of (war) scenes from Mahabaratha & (churning of the milk story) from Srimad Bhagavatham at Angkor Wat's world's largest hindu temple complex !! Lord Vishnu himself was the enabler for his devotees - king Suryavarman II & his highly skilled subjects. Thank the great Khmer people for helping build & preserve this ancient wonder!
Thanks for sharing the engineering science in the masterwork of Angkor Wat. Brilliant.
What you see in this video is just a small fraction of the accomplishments of the Great Khmer Empire. More to come soon:)
thanks for defending
Celtic Phoenix The heck...?
Angkor Wat should have been one of the official 7 wonders of the world!
Much superior to the uninspiring 'Christ Redeemer' statue in Brazil
True
I can see his point, in that the structures would have toppled and sunk with out the counter balance of the moat. As well as the weight reduction of the inner core.
is it just a strike of luck??
@@AndresBonilla211 Some speculate it has already sunk once, by Suryavarman II, he built it a second time by expanding the moat that wide.
Been there this week. One word WOW!
I love Cambodia😍😍😍
I love Cambodia🇰🇭
Khmer Empire originally built this :) and it's Cambodia nowadays! I'm so proud to be Khmer people.
wow idol😍
Tamil people from India built it.
I’m proud to be Khmer 🇰🇭🇰🇭🇰🇭
Tamil king surya varman build it
You should be thanking the Indians and Hinduism for gracing you with such brilliant architecture.
Masterpiece. A Great example of Hindu-Buddha Architecture.
@Rock S true
It's 100% hindu temple and architecture.
@@nikhilkay1 architecture does not define which religion. and also this temple was converted to a buddhist temple hundreds of years ago so go with that too.
Dont bring buddhism hear
The first people who started conversion
Adoption
King ashoka converted to buddhism then
What happened
Everything solved no
Buddhism defeated by Hinduism then it vanished from india
It's the history
Your are getting married
Making babies
After you're saying I don't like this life
What is this
These all nonsense
First Try to understand what is religion
I proud to be a hindu
Then Thamilan 🙏
Buddha😂😂😂😂😂
Thank you for videos
Great video 🤩👍
Hinduism flows throughout this temple.
How much do we have to learn from our ancestors , fans, you are doing a great job, helping us study and get involved in such great mysteries, very affascinating, the human genius is a never ending surprise, l love it
i like Angkor temple
Great engineering minds of the Khmer. And great efforts and ideas by the mighty khmer Kings...
I'm so proud to be Cambodian 🇰🇭🇰🇭🇰🇭
I think , Since the soil is expansive it's expansion and shrinking will depend on the water content. So to maintain a constant water content in the soil of foundation the boundary is filled with water.
Very cool!
A Tamil pretty much mean people inhabiting parts of southern India and Sri Lanka. And this enormous temple is not built by a Tamil king from India. It’s built by a khmer king( king Suryavarman II), whom believed in Hinduism(india religion)But now it has been turn into a Buddhism temples. So please stop spreading false comments. If you haven’t learn the history of Angkor wat!🙏🏼🇰🇭
@@firstnamelastname1840 yeah
You cannot turn a temple into something it wasn't intended to. It is a hindu temple, just placing a Buddhist statue inside a Vishnu(temple) doesn't turn it into Buddhist temple. There are buddhist low quality stupas built here and there just to pretend it is something to do with Buddhism but it is entirely a hindu temple.
@@nikhilkay1 but it was years ago wasn’t it ? why don’t you people just follow what our people wants ? of course we can’t just change this temple religion’s into another religion but im pretty sure our kings (khmer kings) did all the stuff that it can be changed. tamil people are too overproud on something that are not theirs
@@jiaxqisun5384 the whole "mahabharat" epic is carved on the walls of the temple. You can't get more hindu than that. I don't know what Tamils are proud of, it is built by Khmer people period. There may been some people and expertise brought in from India coz stone carving tech was at its peak in India. But regardless it is built by Khmer people. My whole point is it's design and intent is purely of hindu temple not of Buddhist temple.
@@nikhilkay1 yeah some tamil or indian people must be only think that hindu is for them so hearing that this is a hindu temple made them proud thinking their ancestors are a part of this smh 🤦♀️
*It was ruined and submerged by very long heavy rains which flooded the city and the surroundings for so long that they abandoned it because they lost hope for not knowing when the high-rise flooded water would go away.*
Hello everyone.... This temple was built by Indian king suyavarman with help of cholas.... 1700 years old temple. In this temple for only Lord Shiva and Vishnu!!...the king suyavarman friendship with budha people's then he died at one war ....after this temple was taken by budha people, then start to budha temple.... Search the all things in our Tamil culture history and then put the video..... Proud to be a Indian tamilan 🙌❤
This temple build by king surya varman 🙏🏻he’s the king of Cambodia, I’m so proud to be Khmer.
@@rubyzara5726 Gud👍
yògá mùsíçal and also king Jayavaramn VII🙏🏻
@@rubyzara5726yeah✌
It was built on the 12th century so 800 years ago
Universe Father Lord Vishnu big Hindu temple
My mind has been fed nicely today. The weight of the water in the moat surrounding Angkor Wat provides strength to the land beneath the Temple so it can support the weight of the building. Without the moat, the Temple would sink into Earth and collapse. Thanks for that information. I am continually amazed by what the Vedic civilization accomplished all over the world.
توبوا الى الله لأن بالصلاح والاسلام تحيا النفوس
Repent to Allah in Islam because by Islam live the souls and hearts.
Good video
I really wish I could visit this someday.
I'm a civil engineer, and I am skeptical of this guy's point.
he's quite right in term of the concept and the engineering
I'm a cambodian architecture student and i study about my own temples quite in depth tbh
My issue is with his argument that the mote is a necessary part of the monument. It is true that the water is pressing against the edges of the mote which helps to hold it up. If there was nothing in the mote at all, the walls of the mote may collapse over time. However, if the mote did not exist at all (was filled with soil), the monument would still be fine. Soil is more dense than water, which is why dirt doesn't float to the top of the water in the mote. There is also water within the soil, up to the water table, which still provides pressure.
Tee Touch that’s what I heard too. I’m Khmer American. I understand the ingenuity. Makes you think and wonder.
I'm not an engineer, but I think the moat is not using to press the stone wall or something. It's because the foundation of the temple is made from sand and wet sand is much better than soil the only problem is in tropical weather there is only rains in rainy season, so the solution is to make moat around the temple to store water for dry season.
@Erich, I do not understand your point. The guy said that water is denser than laterite, which makes up the surrounding earth. Secondly, soil is not denser than water, and that is why water seeps into soil until it reaches the non porous bed. However, the density of soil increases with the moisture content. You do not see soil on top of moat because the soil at the bed has actually become clay, which is quite dense. Considering you are learning civil engineering, you should know that, eh. I mean soil is compressible, water is not.
Amazing
when you build with stone it lasts thousands of years when you build with modern day materials your house will need main every 30 years or it will fall into itself after a thousand years nothing will be left of a modern house maybe the cement block it was made on
ಜೈ ಹಿಂದೂ ಸನಾತನ ಧರ್ಮ.....Jai Hindu Sanathan Dharam....
Why can't documentaries ever use conventional units of measurement??
The structure is similiar to Prambanan Tample of Indonesia, and Prambanan is older than Angkor Watt. I think they had connectivity in the past
Actually, the founder of Khmer empire was a hostage in Java for a period of time
Amazing ever is Angkor/ Siem reap/ Cambodia 🇰🇭
I can go to angor wat because am from Cambodia
How could they be so creative thousands of years ago. Now they are far from that. What happend?
People gave up, that’s why they are like they are now
@@frededwards6429 finally. Someone who understands.
iPhone made me dumber
@@frededwards6429 Depending on who built it, prisoners n slaves were used back then to build labor intensive projects.. Now, prisoners sit wasting away in cells..lol
Suryavarman was the chola king of Tamil Nadu. suryavarman went to combodia to sea route and married a combodian queen and the son is suryavarman I and the grand son of suryavarman is suryavarman II came to India and learn architect and constructed there for Lord vishnu.. Chola dyansty is the most architecture grand in india.. Angkor wat temple constructed by Tamilans.
Angkor wat who built it?
In conclusion, KHOM is the creator of Angkor Wat.
with the knowledge of ancient Indian art and engineering
With workers from everywhere around the area
Who are the KHOM people?
believe it or not
History of the Khom people
They are Thai ancestors. He ordered the construction of Angkor Wat.
is the inventor of the Khom script which is adapted from the Indian script
This is a problem that Everyone wants all the truth.
It is now 2023.
In the ancient world, the Land of Suvarnabhumi, The Lavo Kingdom was the birthplace of the KHOM people.
Lavo stone castles are everywhere in Thailand. It was built before the Angkor Wat period.
I repeat before the Angkor Wat period.
For example, Phra Prang Sam Yot in "Lop buri"province
Prasat Hin Phanom Rung in "Buri ram" Province of Thailand.
google Keyword "Khom Civilization" in Thailand
I repeat
The KHOM people are not Khmer(cambodia).
The KHOM people are the ancestors of Siam.(Thai)
Ancient stone inscriptions in Burma called the Siamese as KHOM.
We used to watch Disney's Jungle book.
In the forest there is a lost city. that is hypothetical
But this is a place in the real world.
This is an ancient Indian civilization spread to Thailand.
If this is a Hinduism Complex building it can belong to anyone because anyone can believe in Hinduism. So Indians/Tamils claiming this as their treasure or saying that their king built this is totally wrong if you have no other proofs besides the religion and the king’s names. It was 900 years ago. The name can always be similar in any forms. There’s no record in history stated that The suryavarmans and Jayavarmans was a tamil king. And they did not confirm it themselves too. But one thing for sure is they did confirm their cambodians. They created such masterpieces in our lands, and later onwards King Suryavarman sculpted on a rock confirming he was a Khmer King. So being overproud of yourself or your country is a bad thing to do since karma might bite back.
The moat is built to protect cambodia form thailand and Vietnam entering the territory or stealing the angkor wat!!!!
Yeah, no thinking here either.
+Richard Spears I find it hard to believe how Rome get all the attention and not this truly great civilization? This civilization is so GREAT there are much more than just what is seen in this video. They hauled and quarried more stones than the Egyptians.
+Tee Touch yup u agree with you..this building is truly a masterpiece
+ezwan haafizh i*
Tee Touch where are u form .
I love Angkor Wat it's a wonderful structure and a masterpiece for architecture
توبوا الى الله لأن بالصلاح والاسلام تحيا النفوس
Repent to Allah in Islam because by Islam live the souls and hearts.
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توبوا الى الله لأن بالصلاح والاسلام تحيا النفوس
Repent to Allah in Islam because by Islam live the souls and hearts.
Cambodia 🇰🇭♥️
Thanks you for your support Khmer temple 🇰🇭❤❤❤
توبوا الى الله لأن بالصلاح والاسلام تحيا النفوس
Repent to Allah in Islam because by Islam live the souls and hearts.
maybe but it's more likely for protection.
Lord Shri Vishnu Temple 🙏🏼🚩🕉️
It's sad to see a great empire like the Khmer comes to an end, but all empires will come to an end, including the USA.
Usa is not an empire
@@unitedstatesofamerica4737 Doesn't mean it'll last forever.
@@unitedstatesofamerica4737 It is, not like the empires of thousands of years ago but like a very modern Rome.. Does the same exact things the Roman Empire did many years ago..
I was recently there, $37 one day pass is worth it! However, it's pronounced as "Kah Mai" not khmer haha
If your trying to educate do it with some morals. Sarcasm is good if you use it on the right time, this is not one of it.
It's 'Khmae'.
I am Khmer, ( Khmer )
Khmer mean “ Kampu Mera” then “Kampu Mea” then “Kam Mae” and Today “Khmer”. In Angkorian years, Cambodia was named “ Kampuchea Tesa “ mean land of gold.
@@KimlongChan95 nope you seemed to be misinformed. Non of what you said makes sense. Kambojadesa does not mean “Land of gold”. Savannaphumia mean “Golden land”, Savannatwip mean “Golden Islands”. Kmera is the word and it’s carved on stone. Today’s Khmerrrr don’t pronounce the “R”. The reason is too much CHINESE influences in the Language. The Chinese don’t pronounce “R”s. They are in control of the Country. The reason why 3 million Khmers are killed is to make room for them Chinese and Vietnamese.
Water is not denser than rocks. Rocks would float if that were true
Ong Bak approves 👍🏼
didnt know it also had a big moat
that my country.
very great , angkor wat , cambodia
Try Borobudur
Our stone is very strong thats why💖
The Holy Abodes of The Gods at Angkor have been so created that unless a most cataclysmic event takes place right below each of them of if human interference happens, these Temples shall never get damaged. The example of their sturdiness lies in their joints. Just go and see.
I would like to make a guess and I would like a Cambodian or anyone that knows to answer.
Does the temple structure represent the masculine form, and the mote represent the formless but also feminine energy, or shakti? Thank you
توبوا الى الله لأن بالصلاح والاسلام تحيا النفوس
Repent to Allah in Islam because by Islam live the souls and hearts.
i hope we will find new document how to build angkor ?
With help of elephant with stone
The great temple
He is from tamilnadu India....proud to be tamilan
nope definitely not haha dont be so overproud. king suryavarman is a total khmer king he even said it himself by sculpting on stone/rock. he just got relations with southern-india because of soma that’s all. and also names does not define where he came from either so he’s a 100% khmer king ! your point please ?
@@jiaxqisun5384 half knowlege lol
@@santhosh_shooter now where’s your proof that said he’s from tamil ? make no sense man. overproud for nth
1. Proof that suryavarman is from India please? Where’s the source ?
2. Why is ur Tamil king didn’t give any credit to himself ? Because we didn’t see anything related to ur Tamil king in Angkor .
3. Why is ur country doesn’t have such a big temple like Angkor wat ?
( I respect ur king , just curious )
@@seangthearabe5801 I know right we gave credits to them for everything because we got culture influenced but that’s normal in southeast asia . but not the temples lol esp the kings 😂
This proves that
this place was finished in only 3-6 years, meanwhile today’s generation LOL
I love Cambodia
Sadhguru has said that there's a cooperation of *nagas* to build this temple, nagas are not human in nature, so in modern terms we could say cooperation with aliens
Myths are now history
0:47 wong chin temple gulan hills? I think i spelled this wrong, but where is that temple?
+Steffen Wu He said Rong Chen temple which is a Massive Pyramid that measures 200 meters on all 4 sides on top of the Kulen Hills or Mountain. This ancient mountain city has just been fully mapped out and covers an area the size of modern day Phnom Penh.
If Cambodia 🇰🇭 don’t have 1970-1975 war Angkor wat so beautiful 😍
I would like to share my humble opinion. Base on my own research, Angkor Wat was one of the King Solomon/Sulaiman (Suryavarman?)'s palaces.
It' s situated in the land of Abraham's third wife, Keturah.
Angkor Wat was built more than 900BC years ago.
توبوا الى الله لأن بالصلاح والاسلام تحيا النفوس
Repent to Allah in Islam because by Islam live the souls and hearts.
malaysia people learn
I think that king Angkor wat strong ,to meet alien and thi nk that is god,ok
I don’t think it has to do with water..look at the Bayon temple it has no water around it and still standing today....
Make Angkor great again
past,present,future
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توبوا الى الله لأن بالصلاح والاسلام تحيا النفوس
Repent to Allah in Islam because by Islam live the souls and hearts.
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proud to be a sanatani
om namo narayana
It's made of rock. That is why.
ChrisCSunshine Sunshine dude they didn't made out of rock they made out some kind do thing not rock if you idk then search on picture search Angkor gold and white
ChrisCSunshine Sunshine it made by rocks but it was very sophisticated had built up. Art mathematics engineering geography physics are been used to build this spectacular temple. 1000 years still standing in front of us and this can tell us that Angkor wat which is known Khmer empire was the civilization during that decade . Best of architectural features ( art )
ChrisCSunshine Sunshine u should make one then
doesn't look like the temple's near the water `-`
Poda
The total temple in cambodia is almost4000
Nah I bet it is far older just like Bayon Temple
i l9ve in cambodia
Maybe because in Cambodia they respect there history instead of destroying it to build roads like we do in the USA...
Angkor what?
One should visit this marvelous structure once in his/her lifetime. Love Cambodia and Khmer civilization. I am Indian, belonging to the world's oldest religion sanatan dharma(Hinduism).
This is the extent of the Vedic civilisation. From West of Afghanistan to the edges of Cambodia. The Angkor-wat strictly follows the Agama-Shastras. It is what is called in Hinduism a Mandala. What is interesting is the extent to which the Ramayana went. Also went the depiction of 'Samudra Manthan' or the ocean of churns. From the temple one can be sure that King Suryavarman wanted to create a perfect Vedic city similar to what Ram built in Ayodhya ages ago. One can see a lot of Chola influence over Angkor wat. Must have been a huge trade during that time.
You can use as many racial slurs as you want but the fact of the matter is you cannot deny history. The Khmer kings follow the matri-lineage of Pallavas so much so that one of the Cambodia kings Nandivarman was called to rule when the pallava lineage ended. You should read history more and archaeology more. The angkor-wat follows the Agama shastras to the core. Third, all of the depictions are there in the Angkor-wat. It is not surprising there is Chola influence because the Cholas largely built upon the Pallava style and the Khmer temples come later than the Chola temples. There was a lot of bi-lateral trade and a plethora of evidences to support it. You can shout as much as you want, but denial of history doesn't change the evidences. Good luck on your future endeavours.
India don't need rivers because there is an abundance of water resources.
Second, developing arches is not a sign of greatness. The core technology of arches are trapezoidal bricks. Trapezoidal bricks were used in the Indus-Saraswati civilisation as far back as 2500 B.C.E to keep of the pressure from the rivers.
Third, the fact that the arches were not used in India is wrong. Indian arches are available since the Mauryan times. The caves of Ajanta has precise arches cut onto rocks. Not just that the stupa itself is the most perfect hemi-sphere. Not just that , the spherical nature of the Barabar caves which are as old as 300 BCE. Not just that there are extreme reflexivity and acoustical resonance. The Chaityas of the Buddhist school of architecture developed as old as 4th century BC in India. So the idea that arches are alien to India is wrong.
Fourth, The greatest empire around the 10th century was the Chola Empire because it was the crucible of maritime trade in India . Not just Khmer but the Chams of Vietnam , etc. are all influenced from India. I am not saying builders went there but the science of the architecture are definitely from Indian knowledge system. The Angkor-wat strictly follows Agama shastras and is no joke. It also is a 'Mandala' . It is not something new to India also. Most of the old south Indian cities like Meenakshi , Kanchipuram, Srirangam are all mandalas. The reason there are no big ruins is because they are living cities and the civilisation is still continuing for millennia. Even though Cambodia had their own civilisation but these temple structures were brought from Indian knowledge systems. All of the mentioned cities are also Mandalas. And they can still make these temples as big as any because they still have the knowledge. That is because they kept the knowledge system alive. That is why a temple like Akshardham was built in New Delhi with traditional mechanisms by just using interlocking systems.
Fifth, the fact that there are inscriptions borrowed from Indian epics all over the temples of all of South East Asia are undeniable. This only mean either traders of India went or more precisely the people of knowledge went to these places or students came from outside to India. The last two are extremely probably because of the dozens of ancient universities in India.
So you can use whatever colour slurs and use hyper nationalistic words but you are neither a historian nor an archaeologists nor an epigraphist. I don't know what colour has to do with building structures because some of the greatest structures are built by coloured people.
Other than sharing religious belief, I don't see Angkor architect was influence by Indian engineer. The art on the wall didn't resembling to Indian art at all. Is it original religion from Egypt?
sanch Sanchayan you know Ayodhya pat of Khmer land before Thai even exist yet .
What do u mean
Niyorills that is very mean to my culture you know
it build by Khmer Empire, great angkor wat.
@Niyorills why you know?
@Niyorills i saw Thailand peoples apologize to khmer about history, so you said wrong all, thanks
@Niyorills i see thailand peoples know about this , they know well , you fake
@Niyorills yes you king
thanks thai peoples know clear history
It's was built by suryavarama a cholan who's a tamilan.
nope you’re definitely wrong. we’ve studied for over hundreds of years and there’s no records saying he’s tamil. the king himself said that he was khmer by sculpting on a stone/rock saying he’s a khmer king. he only got relations with southern-idia because of soma and thats all. and also the names does not have anything to do with the religion because and the time we also used sanskrit and maybe he was hindu. but anyone can be hindu not just tamils/idians!
توبوا الى الله لأن بالصلاح والاسلام تحيا النفوس
Repent to Allah in Islam because by Islam live the souls and hearts.
Tamil empire power
it's khm-i not khm-errr
យើងខ្ញុំជាជនជាតិខ្មែរសូមអរគុណដល់អ្នកខ្លាំងណាស់
🇰🇭
O.o
You are speaking that Tamil king pandavas built the temple tamilan da
They say Khmer wrong
Anthony Long because they are us not Khmer
I get triggered over that
Khmer = Cambodia
So many lost Indians over a Khmer Temple. Very sad people. I feel sorry for you.
I love ❤️ my country Cambodia 🇰🇭
Holistic engineering, isnt that just engineering?
توبوا الى الله لأن بالصلاح والاسلام تحيا النفوس
Repent to Allah in Islam because by Islam live the souls and hearts.
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توبوا الى الله لأن بالصلاح والاسلام تحيا النفوس
Repent to Allah in Islam because by Islam live the souls and hearts.
Angkor built by suryavarman Tamil king..
Pradip Nithyanandam dumb ass stopped claiming this temple build by your king . It build by Khmer king and Khmer people we not just build this temple our ancestors build more than 2000 temple all over Cambodia Thailand and Lao too
why the fuq some Indians keep saying that this temple was built by Tamil. I am annoyed to see those comments. Read the history of the temple please.