Angkor Wat and the hydraulic city
Suryavarman II built Angkor Wat as a temple-mountain mirroring the cosmos; around it the Khmer engineered the largest pre-industrial urban water system known.
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Angkor Wat and the hydraulic city
Suryavarman II built Angkor Wat as a temple-mountain mirroring the cosmos; around it the Khmer engineered the largest pre-industrial urban water system known.
The Mughal empire and the Taj Mahal
The Mughals ruled a quarter of humanity at their peak; Shah Jahan's Taj Mahal (1632–1653) fused Persian, Islamic and Indian design into white marble.