PHNOM PENH (The Cambodia Herald) -- General Department of Heritage of Ministry of Culture and Fine Art denied Saturday that Cambodia's world heritage site Angkor Wat was first built in India.
The denial was made in respond to Indian hermit claiming that many Cambodian temples including Angkor Wat were not built in Cambodia.
"What the Indian hermit said was not true and groundless because we had a lot of evidence clarifying about the construction sites and where we took stones to build the temples, so why had we to bring stones from India," said Prak Sovannara, director general of the General Department of heritage.
"No one said the materials used to build the temples were brought from India" he said.
He said Cambodia is really influenced by religions from India, but Angkor Wat and other temples were completely built by Cambodians.
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