Ayutthaya Historical Park, Thailand Sep 9, 2023

Ayutthaya Historical Park, Thailand

When the sun sets over Thailand, the Wat Chaiwatthanaram Buddhist temple lights up to welcome the night at the Ayutthaya Historical Park. These ruins are evidence of the area"s rich history as the capital of the Ayutthaya Kingdom, which grew in power between the 14th and 18th centuries to rule Siam, or present-day Thailand. Around 1630, Wat Chaiwatthanaram was built on the orders of the dynasty"s King Prasat Thong, to symbolize the center of the universe and connote his aspiration to become the future Buddha.

© Weerasak Saeku/Getty Images

palette

Today in History

Sep 9, 2018Welcome to ‘Hollywood North’
Sep 9, 2019A toast to California!
Sep 9, 2020Where the bearded reedling sings
Sep 9, 2021Islands of the Salish Sea
Sep 9, 2022Belize Barrier Reef
Sep 9, 2024Iguazu Falls at the border of Argentina and Brazil
Sep 9, 2025A Eurasian red squirrel in Switzerland

More Desktop Wallpapers:

Sep 28, 2024National Public Lands Day
Jan 15, 2024Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Nov 14, 2024Manarola, Cinque Terre National Park, Liguria, Italy
Mar 17, 2018Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Mar 14, 2021Perfect timing
May 27, 2022Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
Dec 5, 2023Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwangau castles, Bavaria, Germany
Jun 6, 2022Indigo bunting
Mar 2, 2022Mount Rainier National Park
Jul 5, 2018Does it swim in slow motion too?
Nov 12, 2021Beavers Bend
Jul 12, 2026Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument, Maine
Sep 3, 2022Skyscraper Day
Sep 22, 2020Happy Hobbit Day
Oct 25, 2024Frankenstein Friday
Aug 28, 2021Relationship status: It s complicated
Aug 26, 2024Palmyra Atoll National Wildlife Refuge
Apr 18, 2020National Park Week begins
Nov 13, 2023Serra de Tramuntana, Majorca, Spain
May 25, 2022The Alhambra in Granada, Spain
Feb 25, 2026Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska
Jun 21, 2020Grab onto the handlebars, kid
May 20, 2019The island fox’s incredible comeback
Nov 11, 2020Honoring our veterans
Dec 3, 2018Computer science on the page
May 30, 2018‘The memory of Abraham Lincoln is enshrined forever’
Sep 5, 2018Salmon migration in full swing
Feb 5, 2018Iceberg off the coast of Antarctica
Oct 29, 2024Great horned owl
Dec 8, 2022The Cathedral of Florence, Italy