Ayutthaya Sacks Angkor

1431

The Siamese king Borommaracha II marched into the Khmer capital, carried off its dancers and Brahmins, and left the city's million-stone temples to the jungle. The Khmer court fled south to Phnom Penh; Angkor Wat, one of humanity's greatest architectural achievements, was abandoned to the bats and the banyan roots.