The inaugural three-day "Khmer Martial Arts Journey to the Historical Site of Angkor" programme successfully concluded in Siem Reap province yesterday, August 29. Provincial governor Prak Sophoan ...

The Minneapolis Institute of Art highlights work from 12th- and 13th-century Angkor—the heart of the Khmer empire—and beyond ...

The ancient Khmer city of Angkor in Cambodia was the largest preindustrial metropolis in the world, with a population near 1 million and an urban sprawl that stretched over an area similar to ...

Angkor was the capital of the Khmer empire, which controlled much of the region between the 9th and 15th centuries. The stunning accomplishments of Angkor’s great kings are clear to see—but the period ...

Reporting from Siem Reap, Cambodia — When French travel writer Pierre Loti took an ox cart to Angkor shortly after Westerners rediscovered it in the 19th century, he found creeper-choked ruins and the ...

Following the success of the “Krud Kun Khmer: Land of Peace” international friendly Kun Khmer event, in Siem Reap’s historic Angkor Archeological Park, the four nations which took part have agreed to ...

Bigger than Greater Glasgow and decked in detailed bas-reliefs, the Unesco-venerated temples of Angkor in Cambodia’s second-largest city of Siem Reap are an outlier of sorts when it comes to tourist ...

I’m looking at a seven-tiered pyramid that has more in common with Mexico’s Chichen Itza temple than it does the structures often associated with Cambodia’s Khmer kingdoms. What’s more, I’ve got the ...

The discovery of gold and silver artifacts in Laos, dating to the early days of the Khmer Empire, leads scientists to investigate how the priceless objects were made and where they might have ...