A dried-up pond sat in the shadow of an imposing 800-year-old temple in Cambodia. The temple may have attracted the most attention, but, as archaeologists recently discovered, the pond held its own secrets too.
The Bayon is an elaborate Buddhist temple built in the 12th century at the same complex that includes the iconic Angkor Wat temple, according to Cambodia’s APSARA National Authority, the department who manages the complex.
As part of their ongoing work, archaeologists excavated a dried-up pond near the Bayon temple — and found a “rare” turtle statue, the Phnom Penh Post, a Cambodian news outlet, reported.
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