They also display the god of the underworld, Yama, sending people to heaven or to hell ... The civil war of l970-1975 and the ruinous Khmer Rouge era that followed meant that no work was done at ...

Built during the same era as Angkor Wat but long left to crumble ... Yet we now know they were never truly forgotten by the people who lived nearby, although the myth spread across Europe ...

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 ...

In 1177, the city of Angkor was sacked by the Cham people from modern-day Vietnam. The Khmer ruler Jayavarman VII, who was then in power, blamed the gods for his misfortune. Jayavarman VII ...

Three people have been killed and several others injured when they were struck by lightning while visiting Cambodia’s famous ...

Cambodia began moving people to Run Ta Ek in 2022, giving those who volunteered to leave their homes in the Angkor area plots of land, a two-month supply of canned food and rice, a tarp and 30 ...

“The number of people were on the rise, including those coming illegally,” said Long Kosal, spokesperson for the Cambodian agency known as APSARA that’s responsible for managing the Angkor site.

However, the number of illegal occupants was 20,754 families in 2022, more than those who have the right to reside in Angkor." At a rate of four people per family, some 150,000 people are ...

Cambodian archaeologists and experts from Singapore’s Institute of Southeast Asian Studies found the statue buried 40 centimeters under the ground during an excavation of an Angkor-era hospital ...

One of the hottest viral trends, where people sprint, leap and crash around Cambodia’s historic Angkor Wat and other temple ruins in the Southeast Asian nation in a live recreation of a popular ...