What you are looking at is the 'door jamb' of the entrance wall to the Angkor Wat site. This is a clear shell strike on the doorway, a relic of the Cambodian civil war. The surface on the left edge of the image is what you would see if you stood in the doorway and looked to your right. The parallel surface on the right of the image is the adjacent wall of the 'Entry room' for this entrance. And the surface in the middle of the image is the wall through which the doorway passes. In the lower left, you can see that a large hunk of the corner edge of the Jamb/wall has been blown out, with a slight 'flower petal' pattern spreading outward. This is the impact site of the shell. On the wall surface on the right of the image, you can see how shrapnel from this strike sprayed out and impacted the adjacent wall, causing damage in the form of small holes.

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Friday 26 February 2010

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