Contour Scaling: the disfiguring disease of Angkor Wat reliefs

The temples of the Angkor region and their reliefs are some of the world's most outstanding works of art in stone Angkor Wat being the biggest and the most important. This temple is famous for the basreliefs in the galleries of the third enclosure. Owing to the fact that all the reliefs and dec...

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