Up next
Tikal
Khmer Deity Sculpture, California Science Center, 2022 — A towering deity figure from Angkor stands in dramatic gallery lighting, its intricate crown and flowing garments carved from a single block of sandstone. Such sculptures once filled thousands of temples across the Khmer empire's vast territory in mainland Southeast Asia.
© Matthew Dillon from Hollywood, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons