SIEM REAP, Cambodia -- This country's most famous temple may be 900 years old, but the message it sets out to convey is timeless: Angkor Wat is all about glory. The temple is one of hundreds built by ...

Cambodia's famed Angkor Wat may be one of the most studied temples in the world, but it still manages to surprise. A joint team of Australian and Cambodian researchers has unveiled a previously hidden ...

The devas and asuras still exist in the form of gigantic sculptures of the former Khmer Empire in Siem Reap province, Cambodia. They stand, enormous legs braced on the ground, as they pull the serpent ...

Did you know Angkor Wat covers 402 acres? It’s the biggest religious building in the world. Located in Cambodia’s Siem Reap ...

As per the traditional Khmer architecture, Angkor Wat is designed to represent Mount Meru, with a Moat around it depicting the mythical sea where the Samudra manthan was done. The temple complex is ...

Hood Museum of Art collection printout, 2006. Dartmouth College Hood Museum of Art Hanover New Hampshire 03755 Accession Number: W.961.252.19 ...

Many of us who live in cities tend to forget what night really looks like. But far from the glow of streetlights and buildings, I found nighttime truly was pitch-black on the outskirts of Siem Reap, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Saffron-robed monks enter the Bayon, which stands in the precise center of the King Jayavarman VII's temple city of Angkor Thom. Cardiff de Alejo Garcia Just before sunrise on a cloudy May morning in ...