Angkor Wat’s Bakan tower restoration nears completion

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APSARA  Authority has said restoration work at Angkor Wat’s Bakan tower will be completed by the end of this month. Half of the western part of the Bakan tower of Angkor Wat will now be stronger, said Kham Mony, an architect in charge of the tower’s restoration work. “The restoration project in the southwest and northwest is almost complete after a restoration team had been working for 10 months,” he added.

 

Mony said it is considered to be the first major restoration work, which started in November last year. The Bakan tower of Angkor Wat in the southwest and northwest had been weakened due to many factors such as ageing, which caused the stones to crack as well as natural damage after plants took root and rainwater eroded the laterite foundations, he said.

 

The restoration team removed the ageing old stones and replaced them with new ones to fill gaps in the structure. Some stones weighed more than three tonnes, Mony said. He said while restoring the Bakan tower, the team assembled the stones that were scattered around the platform and strengthened the pillars, which were in a dilapidated condition.

 

 

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