Walking through the ancient temple, built in 1186 AD, this carving was a nice surprise. There are hundreds of small carvings in Ta Prohm, part of the Angkor World Heritage site. Someone pointed out this “stegosaurus” to me and I had to get a record of it. There are two theories of how a dinosaur came to be carved into a temple over 800 years old. Firstly, it could be a carving of something other than a stegosaurus. Alternatively this could be put there more recently as a joke for unsuspecting tourists.
Taking only photographs – leaving only footprints
Well, it is not a stegosaurus and it wasn’t put there recently. If you cover the decorative stone plates on the back of the animal by your finger, you can see something quite different.
I listen to the stories about a stegosaurus twelve years and it starts to be boring. Let’s change. How about the animal under the “stegosaurus”? 🙂