The exploration of Angkor Wat will take you into a world that will mystify you and you will marvel at the ingenuity of the people who built this temple. Angkor Wat is but one of hundreds of temples that dot the landscape of Angkor. This aerial photograph taken high above Angkor shows you the Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom, the barays, and the edge of the Tonle Sap Lake. The adventure into Angkor Wat is a mystery tour for you to taken into the minds of the ancient Khmer. You will be an archaeologists and you will want very much to touch the ancients. This is a treasure of information left in the ruins of Angkor Wat for you to unravel - it is a jigsaw puzzle so approach it as such. Piece together what you can as a researcher of the past. Research involves exploration, questioning, and gathering of information (data). You have to sort out what is important and what is not. This is the importance of defining a question or series of questions to explore. Research proceeds from questioning. It starts with little questions some times and moves to ever larger and more important ones. For archaeology, we want to know about the human culture and how the Khmer saw their world. You will have to dig into the mindset of the ancients to really understand them. They have left you clues that will puzzle you and yet stagger your imagination.