Besides temples, they built really good bridges too
Typhoon Ketsana may have reached Cambodia, but it looks like the ancient Angkoran bridges have withstood both tests of time ...
Tag: Angkor (kingdom)
Referring to the Khmer Empire that controlled much of Mainland Southeast Asia from the 9th-15th centuries, centred around modern-day Cambodia. Khmer: អង្គរ
See also: Angkor Archaeological Park, Siem Reap
Hevajra statue's missing legs found
The missing legs of a Hevajra statue currently on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York have ...
Angkor’s 13th century Tourist
Time Magazine features an article on Zhou Daguan, the Yuan Dynasty official who visited Angkor in the late 13th century ...
Visitors return to Preah Vihear
With the withdrawal of troops from the Preah Vihear temple, authorities have noted increased visitor numbers to the temple, a ...
Cambodia submits Banteay Chmar for World Heritage listing
The 12th century temple of Banteay Chmar is the next temple to be proposed as a World Heritage Site, although ...
Wednesday Rojak #62 – The Digital Recreation edition
In this edition of rojak, we feature not one, but two digital recreations of ancient sites in Cambodia, along with ...
Legoland Asia to feature Angkor Wat
A planned Asian version of Legoland, set to open in the southern Malaysian state of Johor in 2012 will feature ...
Tomb raider caught at Angkor park
... and no, he doesn't look like Angelina Jolie, either. But the Cambodian man was caught using an "electric-powered machine" ...
Angkor's temples are uniquely Khmer
The Indianization of Southeast Asia was one of the early theories developed in the last century to explain the pervasive ...
Combination of stresses led to fall of Angkor
It wasn't the silting up of the canals, or the rapid deforestation to make way for the urban complex, or ...
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