2016/01/07 by Giulio Magli, Magli, Giulio
Arts and Humanities · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · Social Sciences · #Archaeological Research and Protection #Eurasian Exchange Networks #FOS: Physical sciences #Historical and Architectural Studies #History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph) #physics.hist-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1601.01473
Archaeoastronomy/History of Astronomy
arxiv created 2016/01/07 · openalex publication_date 2016/01/07 · arxiv updated 2016/01/08 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Among the magnificent temple complexes built during the Khmer empire, two single out both for their distance from the Angkor heartland as well as for their anomalous, not cardinal, orientation: Koh Ker and Preah Khan of Kompong Svay. Their orientations are shown here to be connected with two relevant astronomical phenomena, namely the zenith passages of the sun and the rising of the Moon at the northern maximal standstill, respectively.