Cambodia deported two American sisters after they were found guilty of taking nude pictures inside a temple of the nation's iconic Angkor Wat, authorities said.

Police found the siblings -- Lindsey Adams, 22, and her sister Leslie, 20 -- taking naked pictures of each other inside the historic Khmer site's Preah Khan temple on Friday last week.

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Cambodian authorities say taking photos in the nude are offensive because the historic monument is revered as sacred ground.

A senior heritage official, Keat Bunthan, said the two took down their pants to their knees and snapped images of their rear.

A Cambodia court found the sisters guilty of public exposure and making pornography.

It handed down a suspended six-month jail sentence against both of them on Saturday evening.

The accused are also banned from visiting Cambodia in the next four years, a prosecutor at the Siem Reap provincial court said.

He added the sisters, who confessed to the charges, paid fines of US$250 and were ordered expelled from Cambodia.

Siem Reap tourism police said the women were deported late Saturday night.

The sisters are not the first to pull such a stunt. They are the second case of stripping in public in the last two weeks.

Last weekend, three French visitors were also deported after they admitted taking naked photos of each other inside another building within the Angkor Wat complex.

The trio was handed down the same six-month suspended sentence as the women from the US.

They were apprehended just days after a string of images of Asian women posing naked at the Cambodian monument went viral and angered officials vowed a crackdown on similar stunts.

Angkor Wat, declared a world cultural legacy by the United Nations, is made up of the ruins the Khmer Empire's seat of worship, at the height of its power from the 9th to the 15th centuries.

It is the country's most visited tourist destination.

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