In Cambodia, Angkor Archaeological Park recorded 955,131 foreign visitors in 2025, down 6.7 percent year-on-year, with ...
In a clearing of the tropical forest near the entrance to Ta Som, an 800-year-old temple at Angkor, in northwest Cambodia, two architects are having a friendly argument. For the umpteenth time, ...
Angkor Wat attracts millions of visitors a year, but most know little of the intricate and vast water system that fed the empire's rise and demise. Every April during Khmer New Year celebrations, ...
The World Monuments Fund (WMF) has handed over control of three preserved sites in the Angkor Archaeological Park to Cambodia's Authority for the Protection and Management of Angkor (Apsara). The ...
Researchers working in Cambodia’s Angkor archaeological park have uncovered a sandstone door guardian statue in a remote and seldom-visited temple. Known as a dvarapala, the statue is a widespread ...
Chasing visitors around Cambodia's Angkor temple ruins to offer his services, tour guide Bun Ratana says he has had little work since deadly clashes with Thailand broke out, despite it being high ...
Historians have always assumed that the medieval city of Angkor, today located in Cambodia, was huge, simply based on how much land its kings commanded. From the ninth to the 15th centuries, Angkor ...
The empire controlled much of mainland Southeast Asia by the beginning of the 10th century A.D., but unclear rules of succession combined with a complicated web of royal family intermarriages led to a ...
Despite being built centuries ago, the temples of Angkor are central to the history of modern Cambodia. A silhouette of Angkor Wat has appeared on the flag of every post-independence Cambodian regime, ...
The ancient sandstone temples of Angkor have stood up to endless assaults down the centuries, from medieval raiders armed with clubs and spears to genocidal looters laying land mines. These days, the ...