Long Kosal, an Apsara Authority spokesman, said that the meeting focused on a plan to replace an original wooden ceiling on the monumental bas-relief known as the “Churning of the Sea of Milk Gallery” at the east of the temple.
“We have discussed putting the wooden ceiling back for a few years, and today we received approval from the ICC experts,” he said. Kosal explained that this first effort to replace the wooden structure will be based on an ancient fragment from Angkor Wat now held at the Guimet Museum is Paris.
The Apsara Authority has previously cooperated with the World Monument Fund (WMF) in developing plans to emulate the original ceiling design, which Ly Vanna, director of the Department of Conservation of Monuments and Preventive Archaeology, said will be implemented in June 2017.