Muang Tam

Muang Tam is a Khmer sanctuary on the plain southeast of Phanom Rung. Built in the eleventh century for the worship of Shiva, it has five brick towers on a laterite platform, enclosed by walls and a gallery. Four L-shaped pools surround the towers, their edges adorned with serpent heads. A vast reservoir nearby supplied water to the surrounding fields, joining the sacred complex to the cultivated landscape.