The world's largest collection of Khmer sculpture resides, appropriately, at Angkor, the exquisite former royal capital in Cambodia. The 7,000 piecesfull statues, heads and carved inscriptionsare breathtaking not only for their individual beauty, but also for what they collectively represent: a road map to the origins of much of Southeast Asian culture. But this gallery is not in a museum, and isn't open to visitors. The collection is held in anonymous, guarded warehouses where only a few people see it a year. These hoarders assembled it by removing figurines from the ruins of Cambodia's world-famous templessometimes decapitating larger piecesand replacing them...
