α្ααα្αិα្αះα αោα Jean Commaille α’្ααα’αិαα្αα’α្αααុααេ | The First Explorer and Conservator at Angkor Archaeological Park "Jean Commaille"
αូααាααាα័ααα័ααាααួαα្αិαα្αុαααាαα្αៃαុំα័α្α α្αααំαឹααុααោα Jean Commaille α’្ααα’αិαα្αα’α្αααំαូααេ α្αិααៅα្αែαα្αាαាααាα័α The Last Days of the Temple Explorer: The forest around Angkor Thom at that time was dense and overgrown, and Bayon lay quietly under the trees for many centuries. A Frenchman named Jean Commaille, a former officer of the foreign legion who later became a monk and devoted artist, stood in front of that stone monument in 1908 in the role of the first conservator of the Angkor temple group. At that time, he had no methodology, no model, and not enough money, only the forest, the stones, and a group of Cambodian workers whom he had to teach directly. From 1911 to 1914, he spent almost all his time on Bayon. Day by day, he hauled away soil, cut plants growing alongside the walls, arranged the fallen stone beams into their original layouts surrounding the temple, which is why later researchers thanked him, because those stones remained...