The world's first megapolis
I seem to see two main recurrent themes emanating from the Angkor stories that have popped up over the last ...
Tag: Unesco World Heritage
News reports and information related to Unesco World Heritage in Southeast Asia, including the Tentative List, Memory of the World and nominations to the list.
Angkor engineered its own demise
Still more Angkor stories buzzing in the news, and I expect to be posting a few more similar stories today. ...
Angkor's Ancient Enormity Uncovered
In the last featured post for today, National Geographic has a report with a lot of photos (particularly of the ...
Australia's raiders of the lost wat
Unsurprisingly, the Canberra Times focuses more on the Australian archaeologists who worked on this project, however the map was a ...
Researchers map Angkor's ancient sprawl
14 Aug 2007 (The Daily Telegraph) - The article also features a slideshow of images that you should also check ...
News of the Week: Angkor much bigger than expected
Sometimes, a piece of news is so big that just about everybody reports on it. This week, it's a revelation ...
Historic city struggling to maintain charm
The city of Hue seeks to preserve its 100-year-old garden houses.
Two Vietnamese world heritage sites in danger list
The World Heritage Sites of Ha Long Bay and the ancient city of Hue have been placed in UNESCO's list ...
Malacca and Penang asked to resubmit application for world heritage site bid
Malaysia's bid to put two of its historic towns up for inclusion into the World Heritage Site list meets a ...
Why Angkor didn't win
The last time I wrote about the new 7 wonders result, I mentioned that voting patterns were a little skewed. ...
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