"The world around Angkor was changing. Society was moving on. It would have been a surprise if Angkor persisted." The Khmer Empire was not the first civilization felled by climate catastrophe.

While excavating the Ta Prohm temple in Angkor in 1927, a team of archaeologists discovered the head (and only the head) of a Buddha statue. They then brought their find—which has been dated to the 12 ...

The box was inscribed with Japanese characters that roughly translate as: “Cambodia, Angkor Wat photos, 150 sheets, Hanazono University.” Notes written in pencil on the backs of photos show ...

Archaeologists are celebrating an unexpected find at the country’s centuries-old Angkor Wat complex: the torso of a statue of Buddha that matches a head found nearly a century ago at the same site.

The torso, believed to be from the 12th or 13th century, was discovered during a dig by a team of Cambodian and Indian experts last month at Angkor’s Ta Prohm temple.