Looting at Angkor Wat has increased in the past six months. “One of the astonishing aspects of the Angkor sites is their diminished nature at the hand of modern man. Amid the grandeur, empty pedestals, headless carvings and missing lintels cast an aura of indelible loss. The sudden cascade of tourists – one million foreign visitors came to Cambodia last year, a vast majority to Angkor – brings many risks: overcrowding, dwindling of the scant local water supply, a cheapening atmosphere.”