Sunday 11 December 2011

Ayutthaya's 'forgotten' temples damned by deluge

WATERY GRAVE: Left, dozens of skeletons were found at the site of a Portuguese settlement in Ayutthaya in the 1970s. Right, the burial pit as it looks now after waters inundated the area.

A classroom at Phranakhon Si Ayutthaya Rajabhat University. The university plans to tear down the building due to severe damage.

A small chedi at a deserted ruin known as Wat Singharam on the main city island, and the same chedi after it collapsed due to two months of heavy flooding, above right.

Flooding widened cracks at this small deserted ruin, which is all that remains of a  former Buddhist temple known as Wat Mongkut north of the main city island. It now may topple over.

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