PENRITH HERALD AND EAST CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORLAND NEWS. No. 439. - Seventh Week in Quarter. Registered for Transmission Abroad. SATURDAY , FEBRUARY 14, 1874. PRICE 1D. AN ANCIENT CITY. The Globe says: An interesting account of the ancient city of Angcor, discovered last year in Cambodia, by the great French traveller, LIEUTENANT GARNIER, whose death we noticed a few days ago, has been given at the annual meeting of the American Geographical Society. The ruins are of extraordinary magnificence, both in point of extent and of architectural splendour. The sides of the principal temple measure no less than two miles and a quarter in circumference, and the remains of endless roads, buried in forests and jungle, contain monument after monument, "each, if possible, more astonishing than the preceding." The architecture and sculpture of this forgotten city exhibit a very advanced knowledge of the arts, and the great temple is described as the masterpiece of some unknown Michael Angelo. Angcor must have been one of the greatest cities of the earth, and yet of its history, no account remains. Nothing is known of its past, save that a Chinese traveller in the year 1202 mentioned its splendour, and that 300 years later it was referred to by RIBADENEYRA as an ancient ruin. Since then it was forgotten till last year; and in all probability, nothing more of these extraordinary remains will ever be known. To judge from the description, archaeology never provided a better skelton for poetry to endue with flesh than these ruins of Angcor. ______________________________ Two fascinating sites to look at for photos and the history of (properly spelled) Angkor. http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/668 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angkor