Cambodia’s Siem Reap is the gateway to ancient Angkor – here’s how to get the best out of your trip - With a sleek new ...
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 collection includes an ...
Monumental empire builders The Khmer were great builders, erecting monumental structures across the land. Significant cities and towns like Angkor and Sambor Prei Kuk (Cambodia), Vat Phu (Laos ...
Explore the tumultuous rise of the Khmer Empire, one of the greatest civilizations in human history with the immense temple complex of Angkor Wat at its heart.
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 torso was found alongside 29 other related fragments at the Ta Prohm Temple, part of the 155-square-mile Angkor complex that served as the capital of the Khmer Empire between the ninth and ...
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.
Archaeologists at Ta Prohm temple in Cambodia have discovered a 800-year-old Buddha torso that matches a statue head found in ...
The museum's newest temporary exhibition, Angkor: The Lost Empire of Cambodia, includes more than a hundred pieces of statuary, intricate carvings and sacred relics, many of which have never been ...
The centuries- old temples of the country’s famed Angkor Wat played host to a parade ... where the ruins of the Khmer empire’s greatest monuments are surrounded by lush forests and giant ...