Our guide led us through the dark, in silence, to a small pagoda where Buddhist monks had gathered before sunrise to perform ...
Archaeologists in Cambodia are celebrating an unexpected find at the country’s centuries-old Angkor temple complex: the torso of a statue of Buddha that matches a head found nearly a century ago at ...
Here’s the list of top 10 largest Hindu temples in the world. Angkor Wat templeAngkor Wat Temple in Cambodia holds the title ...
starting with Angkor Wat, the most famous of the thousands of temples that span the 400-square-kilometre area. “The locals have always known this was here, but the French came and wrote books ...
The collection includes an overall aerial image of Angkor Wat, the crowning glory of the temple ruins from the early 12th century, and photos of gigantic towers with carved faces at the central ...
Tourists watch the sunrise at the Angkor Wat temple in Siem Reap province, Cambodia. Short videos of visitors running down narrow stone pathways and vaulting over passageways – often overlayed ...
By the late 16th century, 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 religious monument—the ...
They include the famous Temple of Angkor Wat and, at Angkor Thom, the Bayon Temple with its countless sculptural decorations. UNESCO has set up a wide-ranging programme to safeguard this symbolic site ...
The ancient Hindu-Buddhist temple of Angkor Wat in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Jane Phare reflects on the highlights of a 16-day trip to Cambodia and Vietnam, including eight days drifting down the ...