Also known as Ta Nhean East, it’s a rectangular brick temple located atop the Phnom Bayang mountain range at Kirivong, Takeo. The ancient temple is met by a short walk up the mountain, passing spectacular views that are also overlooked by ancient gods old and new. It’s a quite large brick temple, opening to the … Read more
Located atop the mountain of the same name, Prasat Phnom Bayang features a large temple complex located atop a small plateau high up on the mountain, Phnom Bayang. Not only spectacular for its amazing location, architecture, and artwork, the site also provides an array of ancient inscriptions revealing its importance from the 7th century through … Read more
Located along the same trail that leads to Phnom Bayang Temple are the remains of Prasat Preah Ko. It’s a small square brick temple that had a laterite forebody extending its eastern entrance. The square temple features strongly emphasized pilasters and pediments and while opening to the east, its doorframe is no longer seen. Around … Read more
Small monastery where an inscription was found and registered under KA 87.
Monastery where an inscribed stele with lines of Khmer and Sanskrit was found and registered under K. 689 (IC VI, p. 47)
Monastery built upon the site of an ancient temple, also where an inscribed stele was found believed to have originated from Wat Lo
Also recorded as Vat Lo, Chean Chum, Pothivong Leu Pagoda, Can Cum, and Vat Pothivon Leu… It’s a contemporary monastery that is built upon a base of laterite likely originating from an ancient temple site. It is also the origin of inscriptions recorded under
Also recorded as Ta Nhean West. It is the partially standing remains of a brick temple located on the mountainside around 85 m to the north/northwest of Ta Nhean East.
Located atop the mountain, south of Ta Nhean East Temple, are the remains of a rectangular brick temple. The temple is only standing in part, rectangular, and perhaps once was similar to the temple lower down the mountain, with all the overgrowth and lack of remains it’s hard to know much else. There is a … Read more