Angkor, in what is now Cambodia, ... Monash University, 2021 Angkor, in what is now Cambodia, was one of the most populated cities in the world from the 9th to 15th centuries CE. That said ...

The events that led to the collapse of the ancient Cambodian megacity of Angkor have been shrouded in mystery for centuries. But new research sheds light on what may have happened.

The University of Sydney's Professor Roland Fletcher and Dr Damian Evans lead the Greater Angkor Project in Cambodia, a major international research collaboration which is using airborne laser ...

To learn more about everyday life in Angkor Wat, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign archaeologist Alison Carter has done excavation work on some of the residential mounds inside the enclosure.

Around Angkor, “the impact of lidar data is like turning on a light after groping in the dark for over a century,” says archaeologist John Miksic of the National University of Singapore.

Photo by Alison Carter, courtesy of the University of Oregon. Sarah Cascone May 10, 2021 Share Share This Article The massive temple complex that is Cambodia’s Angkor Wat is famed as the world ...

King Suryavarman II had Angkor Wat built as a Hindu temple to the god Vishnu. The temple has a 213-foot-tall (65 meters) central tower that is surrounded by four smaller towers and a series of ...

Researchers in the Greater Angkor Project at the University of Sydney in Australia, together with colleagues in Australia, Cambodia and France, used the techniques to survey the entire watershed ...

Archaeologists working at the a World Heritage Site in Cambodia have unearthed 12 sandstone statues, some of which are over a thousand years old.. The discovery took place in Angkor—one of three ...

Cambodia has seen a remarkable increase in the number of Chinese tourists to its iconic Angkor Archaeological Park in the ...

Angkor Wat is Cambodia’s best-known tourist attraction, attracting some 2.5 million visitors annually, and is even featured on the country’s flag. UNESCO calls the site, ...