The archaeological site of Koh Ker is a sacred urban ensemble of numerous temples and sanctuaries including sculptures ... Constructed over a twenty-three-year period, it was one of two rival Khmer ...

Restored in the 1940s, the 12th-century Banteay Samre, devoted to the Hindu god Vishnu, recalls the medieval Khmer Empire at its height. The temple is cloistered inside two sets of concentric ...

Other discoveries included evidence of a royal palace and a state pyramid-temple, two infrastructures typically found in Khmer Empire capitals. “The work effectively draws to a close 150 years ...

All these brick and stone monuments were erected throughout the Khmer Empire between the seventh and 14th centuries. These temples were all palaces of the gods, and they were meant as replicas on ...

Angkor Wat is actually just one of more than a dozen magnificent temples in the vast metropolis of Angkor, the capital of the Khmer Empire from the 9th to the 15th centuries. Within Angkor Wat ...

Many of the temples were abandoned when the Khmer empire collapsed in the 15th century. The sites were at risk again in the 1970s, during Cambodia’s civil war. Every global citizen on this earth ...

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.

Stretching over some 400 km2, including forested area, Angkor Archaeological Park contains the magnificent remains of the different capitals of the Khmer Empire, from the 9th to the 15th century. They ...

She visits the world's largest temple, Angkor Wat, and then travels to the Cambodian jungle to discover more about the roots of the Khmer Empire.