The outer walls of Angkor Wat’s main floor, over 1.2 km In length are carved with a wonderful series of Khmer histories and legends from Hindu scripture. Hence a brilliant display of sexy court ladies, soldiers with wry looks and smug grins, elephants with even more smug grins, gods fighting on their magnificent steeds (be it winged demon or the rather bizarre sacred goose), a tug of war to churn the ocean of milk, or super hardcore monkey warriors battering an army of giants.

Got to be honest, it’s much more entertaining than the Gospels or the Bayeux Tapestry.