Oh the tragedy of war! Visiting Ankor Wat, Cambodia, some years ago I
was intrigued by white numbers and letters painted on masonry blocks
scattered about the magnificent ruins, some in neat piles others
disordered. On enquiring I found that years earlier, when working on
restoration of the famous complex, some bits had been disassembled by
archaeologists, generally to remove damaging tree and vegetation
growths, and had been marked with their locations recorded for future
rebuilding. When the Pol Pot regime moved through the region in the '90s
killing teachers and attacking scholarship, they destroyed virtually all
the records with clues to reassembly of the blocks, and now the
restorers having lost the plans for restoration are faced with a massive
puzzle. Where do these blocks go? How were they placed originally? What
was the layout of the building? And so the stone blocks still remain
scattered about waiting a solution. Wars have a lot to answer for.
Gordon
On 6/12/2019 9:24 pm, James McKane via CoTyroneList wrote:
A huge project is underway to restore HUGE numbers of records which
were lost in the 1922 fire using duplicate records from around the
world. For more details read the full article at - http://bit.ly/33Vogbw
I can't wait!!
Jim
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