Now, Angkor Wat is a sacred place for Buddhists. People walk its vast grounds, feeling the history and spirituality it holds. Angkor Wat has seen many challenges, like war and nature’s effects.

Angkor Wat, built in the early twelfth century ... They also display the god of the underworld, Yama, sending people to heaven or to hell. “Angkor” was a complex civilization with its kings at the ...

the head of Amnesty’s research team investigating the Angkor Wat resettlements. “People no longer have income,” she said in an interview in Geneva. “They had a clear source of income at th ...

As many as 750,000 people lived in Angkor ... when Portuguese missionaries came upon the lotus-shaped towers of Angkor Wat—the most elaborate of the city's temples and the world's largest ...