The temple has disappeared into the forest. Angkor is the scene of one of the greatest vanishing acts of all time. The Khmer kingdom lasted from the ninth to the 15th centuries, and at its height ...

Angkor was a metropolis of a million or so people, the capital of the Khmer kingdom, which flourished for 500 years, peaking in the 12th century. (The word “Khmer” refers to Cambodia’s ...

You may feel like the hero of an adventure film, stumbling into a lost city in the jungle, where vegetation obscures the monuments of a long-ago kingdom. If you've seen pictures of Angkor Wat ...

This case study on Angkor represents some of the key threats and concerns World Heritage sites across the world may also have to deal with and manage. When Angkor was first inscribed in 1992, it was ...

Angkor Arch­aeological Park welcomed 398,531 international visitors in the first quarter of 2025, up 14.6% compared to the same period last year. The ancient site made RM83mil in revenue from ...

Leaders of the rival kingdom of Ayutthaya, in what is now Thailand, sacked Angkor in 1431. It was abandoned and left to decay, doomed to the same fate as its predecessor, Mahendraparvata.

The wave of Khmer art restitutions in the 2020s dwarfed all those that went before. A multinational team of Cambodian ...

At 400 acres, Angkor Wat (“temple city” or “temple that is a city” in Khmer, the language of Cambodia) is considered the largest religious structure in the world. Yet despite its size ...

This February 2025 image provided by the Apsara National Authority, shows a headless statue excavated by archaeologists at the Angkor temple complex in Cambodia's Siem Reap province. According to ...

“Buddham Saranam Gachhami. So peaceful to visit Angkor Thom temple in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Such a great example of ancient beauty,” he wrote, in a heartfelt Instagram post. During his time in the ...