History of Indian and Eastern Architecture v2.c33.s9.3

v2.c33.s9.3

SINCE the exhumation of the buried cities of Assyria by Mons. Botta and Mr. Layard nothing has occurred so startling, or which has thrown so much light on Eastern art, as the discovery of the ruined cities of Cambodia. Historically, they are infinitely less important to us than the ruins of Nimrûd and Nineveh ; but, in an architectural point of view, they are more astonishing ; and, for the elucidation of certain Indian problems, it seems impossible to overrate their importance.