Bas-relief depicting the punishments of hell, on the south gallery wall of Angkor Wat, Cambodia. Here sinners are beated by giant demons and dragged to their punishments by cords tied through their noses. Angkor Wat is the world's largest religious monument and an architectural masterpiece, it is the apogee of classical Khmer style. Built between 1113 and 1150 by King Suryavarman II, it was both city and temple, the capital of the Empire and the State Temple dedicated to the god Vishnu.