Join me on a mesmerizing journey through Angkor Wat, the heart of the Khmer Empire! Experience the breathtaking architecture and rich history that make this place so captivating. Discover why ...

This story appears in the July 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. From the air, the centuries-old temple appears and vanishes like a hallucination. At first it is no more than an umber ...

For the first time, a secret hoard of gold and silver artifacts, discovered in Laos in 2008, is revealed to the world. What makes this treasure truly priceless is its mysterious origins and the ...

The two statues were seized during investigations into international smuggling networks including that of notorious ...

Photographer Michael Freeman has seen it all. He's been to the Valley of the Kings in Egypt and remote temples in Sudan's Nubian desert. Yet nothing has moved him in the same way as Angkor Wat ...

Angkor, located outside Siem Reap, about 300 kilometers northwest of Phnom Penh, was the capital of the Khmer Empire, which flourished from the ninth to 15th centuries.

The archaeological site of Koh Ker is a sacred urban ensemble of numerous temples and sanctuaries including sculptures, inscriptions, wall paintings, and archaeological remains. Constructed over a ...

Wat Phou (Vat Phou) in southern Laos – officially known as the Lao People’s Democratic Republic – some 45km southwest of Pakse, is a significant archaeological site that is recognised by ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the torso of a centuries-old Buddha statue that matches a head unearthed a century ago at the same site in Cambodia. The centuries-old statue, which is believed to ...

Archaeologists working at Cambodia’s Angkor Wat temple complex have unearthed the torso of a statue of Buddha that is believed to be connected to a head that was found onsite nearly a century ago.

On the shore of Lake paint Tonle Glanders, which is located in the heart of Cambodia, is located the ancient city Angkor, which at one time served as the capital of the Khmer Empire stateliness.