Day 4 and the origin of the comic strip?

So today was our official tour of Penom Penh.  It was amazing, except for one tiny detail, not working camera.  That means I have to go back to all the places we went today (aww).  The first place we went to was called Watt Phenom.  This whole area was the center for the Pa Put Regime (I am probably butchering the spelling terribly).  It is absolutely gorgeous.  The main temple we went in is where I noticed something very interesting.  All of the paintings looked like a comic strip to me!  What I mean by this is, the pictures were in their own distinct panels with titles and subtitles.  The art seemed sequential, being unable to read the language I could only guess where it began and ended.  In my comics class my teacher theorized that the first "comic strip" appeared on a mural in ancient England around 1537.  This temple was built in the mid 1400's  Perhaps I made a discovery?

In this same area there was a very symbolic image.  The image is a giant clock (which works).  When Vietnam overthrew the Pa Put Regime in 1979, the people of Cambodia wanted to start over from year 0 (symbolically of course).  I thought that this was a powerful image because the Pa Put Regime killed over a million people, so many people that nobody living in Cambodia wasn't affected in someway.  The history that is here is powerful.  This paragraph was dark so I'll end it on a lighter note, I SAW A MONKEY!

The next area we went to was the royal palace.  HOLY CRAP!  This place was gorgeous!  Royal is not even an appropriate word to describe this place.  It is huge and it is vast.  The entire throne room is made of gold!  There are like 4 surrounding shrines that are nearly as big as the throne room.  To get an idea of how awestriking the royal palace was I'll describe it like this.  Driving around Penomh Penh there are different Pagodas (buddhist temples where monks go to prey), every Pagoda is so beautiful and amazing.  The Royal Palace is 1000 times more amazing than any of the Pagodas, you recognize it instantly because of how amazing it is.  So sorry I wasn't able to get a picture of it, I'll revisit and take pictures and post them here.  Dinner in a couple hours.
Other than that, I start school tomorrow!