EVERY INCH of Angkor Wat has a SECRET

Hey guys, today we are going to take another look at Angkor Wat Temple in Cambodia. We always hear that Angkor Wat is the largest temple in the world, but the real mystery is not that it is the biggest, the real mystery is that also has the smallest carvings in the world. For example, if you look at this pillar, you see that there are carvings which completely cover the entire pillar, but you cannot understand them unless you take a closer look. Because these carvings are very tiny.

And here are carvings of various animals, but look at the details of these carvings, they are so small. For example look at this deer you can even see its eyes, and its mouth opening, this is only a millimeter long. You can see that the entire column is full of these strange little carvings. It must have been quite a task to carve such micro carvings all over this column. But are these tiny carvings found only on this one column?

I start examining the columns one by one, and it is interesting, because each and every column is covered with these micro carvings. Here you can see two birds kissing, in another column you can see a similar depiction where 2 birds are fighting each other. Again, the details are in millimeters, you can see the bird's eyes, its head plume or topknot, You can see its wings wide stretched and even its tail, and also the legs, complete with talons. All this is carved in an inch or two, and repeated with perfection to create an insane matrix on the pillar. There are columns which show apes doing various activities, there are micro carvings which show many other interesting patterns which completely fill up the entire facets of the columns. You may not believe this, but every column I look at, is covered with these carvings. This is insane because today, there are a total of 1532 columns in Angkor Wat temple, and all of them have these carvings, and there are also many columns destroyed, and lying on the ground, and they are also covered with Microcarvings. Here is another fascinating detail on the columns, even if they carved deities, they covered the rest of the column with microcarvings, they carved flowers, leaves, and they never left any space empty. Forget about building the largest temple in the world, imagine the task of carving every inch on every column of this temple.

But are these carvings found only columns? As I start getting fascinated by these microcarvings, I realize that they stretch beyond the columns, they also stretch above, on top as well, if you look at the top beam, even that has these tiny carvings. This is weird, so I start looking around at the walls. And I am shocked, look at the walls. Everything is filled with these carvings. Zoom in and you will see various types of flowers, leaves, creepers, ornamental hangings. It is crazy even to say this, but this is what I am saying: Every inch of the world's largest temple is covered with carvings. You cannot even find one inch in this entire temple that is blank, that is not carved. So imagine building a temple that stretches for 400 acres and filling every inch with tiny little carvings. This would have been a monumental task. But did they really carve every inch of it?

Here is a giant wall that stretches forever, and right away you can see that it has beautiful carvings all over it. This is just one photograph of a small part of this wall, and in this alone, you can see more than 80 warriors, several gods and a dozen animals carved. Each warrior is doing something unique - one guy is shooting an arrow, another guy is wielding a sword, one guy is using a shield etc. The details are so vivid, you can even see different expressions of anger, fear and even dejection and satisfaction. How could they carve that much details in such a small area? In the center look at this bird, in one hand he is holding a horse, on the other hand he is holding another horse. I can talk about this all day because the details are insane. The really interesting part is, this is just about 10 feet in length, and these carvings stretch for many hundred feet on this wall alone. Imagine the number of fighters and details carved all over this wall. It is weird because you can understand that the sculptors did not get enough space to make the carvings they wanted in the world's largest temple. It almost seems like they had to cram in a lot of details.

Hey guys, today we are going to take another look at Angkor Wat Temple in Cambodia. We always hear that Angkor Wat is the largest temple in the world, but the real mystery is not that it is the biggest, the real mystery is that also has the smallest carvings in the world. For example, if you look at this pillar, you see that there are carvings which completely cover the entire pillar, but you cannot understand them unless you take a closer look. Because these carvings are very tiny. And here are carvings of various animals, but look at the details of these carvings, they are so small.

For example look at this deer you can even see its eyes, and its mouth opening, this is only a millimeter long. You can see that the entire column is full of these strange little carvings. It must have been quite a task to carve such micro carvings all over this column. But are these tiny carvings found only on this one column?

I start examining the columns one by one, and it is interesting, because each and every column is covered with these micro carvings. Here you can see two birds kissing, in another column you can see a similar depiction where 2 birds are fighting each other. Again, the details are in millimeters, you can see the birds eyes, its head plume or topknot, You can see its wings wide stretched and even its tail, and also the legs, complete with talons. All this is carved in an inch or two, and repeated with perfection to create an insane matrix on the pillar. There are columns which show apes doing various activities, there are micro carvings which show many other interesting patterns which completely fill up the entire facets of the columns.

You may not believe this, but every column I look at, is covered with these carvings. This is insane because today, there are a total of 1532 columns in Angkor Wat temple, and all of them have these carvings, and there are also many columns destroyed, and lying on the ground, and they are also covered with Micro carvings. Here is another fascinating detail on the columns, even if they carved deities, they covered the rest of the column with micro carvings, they carved flowers, leaves, and they never left any space empty. Forget about building the largest temple in the world, imagine the task of carving every inch on every column of this temple. But are these carvings found only columns?

As I start getting fascinated by these micro carvings, I realize that they stretch beyond the columns, they also stretch above, on top as well, if you look at the top beam, even that has these tiny carvings. This is weird, so I start looking around at the walls. And I am shocked, look at the walls. Everything is filled with these carvings. Zoom in and you will see various types of flowers, leaves, creepers, ornamental hangings. It is crazy even to say this, but this is what I am saying: Every inch of the worlds largest temple is covered with carvings. You cannot even find one inch in this entire temple that is blank, that is not carved. So imagine building a temple that stretches for 400 acres and filling every inch with tiny little carvings. This would have been a monumental task. But did they really carve every inch of it?

Here is a giant wall that stretches forever, and right away you can see that it has beautiful carvings all over it. This is just one photograph of a small part of this wall, and in this alone, you can see more than 80 warriors, several gods and a dozen animals carved. Each warrior is doing something unique - one guy is shooting an arrow, another guy is wielding a sword, one guy is using a shield etc. The details are so vivid, you can even see different expressions of anger, fear and even dejection and satisfaction. How could they carve that much details in such a small area?

In the center look at this bird, in one hand he is holding a horse, on the other hand he is holding another horse. I can talk about this all day because the details are insane. The really interesting part is, this is just about 10 feet in length, and these carvings stretch for many hundred feet on this wall alone. Imagine the number of fighters and details carved all over this wall. It is weird because you can understand that the sculptors did not get enough space to make the carvings they wanted in the world’s largest temple. It almost seems like they had to cram in a lot of details. Look carefully, do you see any space that is not carved?

It is completely filled, the sculptors could not get enough of this. And some of you may think, well this is a battlefield, sculptors wanted to show a very crowded, chaotic battlefield filled with people. But look above the battlefield, look at the patterns carved. This is not the battlefield, they could have left it empty, or at least they could have just made simple designs. But no, they were carving a plant like design with various leaves, on top of that they carved some ellipses, on top of that they have carved like animal faces, on top of that, you can see birds with wings spread out, and it goes on. But I am not fully satisfied even after observing these walls. I don’t believe that a temple stretching for 400 acres with a pyramidal height of 200 feet can actually be carved every inch.

This seems humanly impossible. So I am going to go to the outside of the temple, nobody observes the temple from this point. You see the base of the temple is raised to 12 feet, above that base, we can see people walking inside the temple and on the walls there are carvings in every inch, but what about the base of the temple itself?

Nobody in the right mind, is going to go in the grass and look at the base of the temple. Did ancient builders carve every inch of that base?

I am very curious, so I am walking to the base. What do you think?

Are there Micro carvings there?

As I get really close, I see tiny little carvings completely filling up the base as well. Think about it, nobody is going to walk around here, not only today, even in ancient times, nobody is going to come to this place, and see what is here. Perhaps one in a million visitors would come here and take a look at this area, but even here, the ancient builders did not just carve one pattern repeatedly, they created so many designs. See from the top to bottom of the base, there are so many varieties, I could spend all day

analyzing these carvings: Garudas, deities, flower patterns, lines, chakras circles, even animal faces are carved on them, and the bottom is eroded because of nature. So I walk through the entire stretch of this side, and this is pure insanity, because there is not a single inch left blank.

So the ancient builders covered every inch of Angkor Wat with carvings. Take a minute to think about doing something like this today. Angkor Wat is about 300 times the size of an American football field, it stretches for 400 acres. Let’s take only 25% of this, let’s take just 100 acres lets ignore the steps on the moat, protective walls etc., they won’t have carvings because they are just accessories surrounding the actual temple. Visualize putting a separate carving on every inch of this 100 acres. Let’s imagine doing something simple, right?

Let us say I want you to make a pizza that stretches for 100 acres. This is impossible, but somehow you manage to make a cheese pizza that s 100 acres wide. But now, I come to you and I say, good job, you have made the world’s largest pizza, but that not enough. Now I want you.. to fill every inch of this pizza with a unique topping. One inch should have mushrooms, one inch should have onions, one inch should have olives and one topping should never repeat anywhere else in 100 acres. Do you honestly think you can do this?

This would be impossible even if you are a world class chef. But this is what the ancient builders have accomplished in Angkor Wat. I mean how did they accomplish such an impossible task?

I am getting really frustrated with these ancient builders, now, I am hell bent on finding an inch that is not carved. I mean there should be at least one inch in this entire temple, that is not carved right?

So I examine this entrance way in Angkor Wat, If you look at the top line, you can see a series of small flower like patterns. Below that you can see a beautiful carving, this is definitely a war scene, eroded a little bit.. but look at the bottom of the same block. They carved even that part with circular patterns. Let us go to the next level, now we are looking at the frame of the entrance. There is a lot of erosion and corrosion because this temple is at least 900 years old, but you can see that even the tiniest strips are carved. These strips are just a few millimeters wide, but they have carved even on those thin strips. And then, I strike gold. Look at the sides.

It is very smooth, there are no carvings.Here you can see carvings on the outside and here also you can see carvings, but the L shape between these areas are completely smooth, they don’t even have one carving. So I was wrong when I said ancient builders carved every inch of Angkor Wat. They did leave some areas uncarved.

But Why?

This does not make any sense, why would the sculptors be so stupid to carve vertically on top of the entrance where nobody is going to see them, but leave the sides which would be seen by every visitor. The answer lies at the bottom, look here. You see this hole, yes it is eroded, but there is a square hole. Look on the other side, you see this hole?

Now let’s look at the top and confirm if there are holes on the top as well. And sure enough, yes there are 2 holes on the top as well. Now we understand why these areas were not carved. Originally, there were 2 door placed in this entranceway, the holes were used as hinges for the doors, and the doors sides would completely cover these 2 areas which are not carved.

So the doors would block these 2 areas all the time, so nobody can see these areas. This is why ancient builders did not carve these areas, because nobody will set eyes on them. So what will the people see instead ?They would see spectacular carvings on the wooden doors. This is not just a theory because we do find remnants of these wooden blocks which supported the wooden doors. You see how richly carved this wooden block is, even after all these centuries. Again, not an inch is seen without carvings. There is no doubt that large wooden doors, richly carved would have been placed in every door way. So, my initial finding was that every inch of Angkor Wat temple was carved. But that theory is incomplete okay?

The ancient builders only carved every inch you can see. If you cannot lay eyes on an inch, If no one can see a particular inch, then the ancient builders did not carve that inch. Because it is a waste of time, to carve even an inch where nobody can see. Look at this area - I told you about these flowers. And these flowers would be seen only when the doors are open, but they carved this area also. Only 1 in a million would observe these by directly looking up, while standing in the doorway. But they did carve this area, to satisfy a freak who is going to observe this.

But even in this strip, they did not carve all the way. They left it blank for a few inches here and here because those areas would always be covered by the door all the time, so they will never been seen. Of course, we can go to the next entrance and verify this. And yes, again, from top to bottom, everything is carved except where the doors would have stood. It is already weird that ancient builders carved every inch of what you can see. But it is even more weird that they did not carve, even an inch of what you will not see. This means, they planned everything with machine like accuracy. They must have had very advanced technical knowledge and skill to do something like this. Now, what happened to the ancient wooden doors?

Where did they go?

The builders of Angkor Wat would have never even imagined that an inferior civilization would come later, dismantle these wooden doors and wooden blocks and use them for their houses and other selfish purposes. In fact, the World Monument Fund is now trying to put new wooden blocks on the ceiling, all

around the temple. They are trying to re-create what the ancient builders originally had. Remember I told you, the ancient builders did not even want an inch you see, to be uncarved. But if you look above, the ceiling is not at all carved.

Why is this?

Why did they leave the entire top area uncarved?

Because they originally had a false ceiling, yes they had put a false ceiling all over the temple with richly carved wooden blocks. Of course, the generation which came later completely dismantled them and used them for selfish reasons, not to mention that they also destroyed them because the blocks had Hindu carvings, and the generations that came later did not follow Hinduism. So they also intentionally destroyed these fabulous wooden blocks. And this is why you will see some pillars which look like they are not carved. This is because of intentional destruction by people. Now, these are Micro carvings, they are only one or two millimeters deep, and you can destroy them very easily.

You can just take a handful of sand, and just rub it on the face of the sandstone, and the carvings will start fading away, and this is what they did. The inferior civilizations did many things like this, they sand filed these blocks, they put their own inscriptions on these pillars to claim it was their work. Some tried to destroy all these pillars unsuccessfully, and they also tried to deface all the Hindu carvings unsuccessfully. But in their defense, it is humanly impossible to destroy every inch of 100 acre area. But the real question is, how was it possible to carve every inch of what you will see in this temple?

In my previous video, I talked about how ancient builders were processing one ton of rock every minute, that one minute also includes carving every inch of that one ton rock. Is this even humanly possible?

What happened to those ancient builders?

How did that civilization disappear?