Building Angkor Wat took about 30 years. When you enter, you walk through three galleries on paved paths. These paths lead you deeper into the temple’s vast area. The central towers look like ...

After we pass, I crane my neck for a last look. 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 ...

Images of the twelfth century temple known today as Angkor Wat have appeared on every Cambodian flag since the country gained its independence from France in l953. Cambodia is the only nation in the ...

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.

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 are flooding to Cambodia's "8th wonder of the world," the ancient temple complex at Angkor. But the rapid expansion of the site comes at a terrible cost, as tens of thousands of people ...

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 21 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's APSARA National Authority (ANA) archaeologists have been restoring the causeway located at the second terrace of the famed Angkor Wat, said an ANA news ...

Angkor is a vast complex of over 70 temples, the remains of an ancient city that is once thought to have covered a wider area than modern-day Paris. At its heart is the biggest temple of all ...

PHNOM PENH, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- Archaeologists of Cambodia's APSARA National Authority (ANA) have completed the restoration ...

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.