via Khmer Times, 17 May 2023: The Apsara National Authority is using manual labor to restore and consolidate the southeastern platform of Bakan Tower at Angkor Wat, employing traditional techniques to carefully remove and replace large stones, with the restoration expected to be completed in eight months using funding from tourist ticket sales.
In a groundbreaking effort to achieve authenticity, the Apsara National Authority is employing manual labour – the same kind of hard work used by ancient Khmers – to restore and consolidate the southeastern platform of Bakan Tower at Angkor Wat.
The restoration team of Apsara National Authority is assembling scaffolds to remove large stones. Each stone must be carefully slipped off from the top down before restoring them to their original condition.
The first step is to clean all the small stones from the southeastern platform of Angkor Wat’s Bakan Tower. This corner of Angkor Wat temple has remained in a damaged state for centuries.
Source: Manual labour comes to the rescue of Bakan Tower works – Khmer Times
