With a sleek new airport and more flight routes, Siem Reap – gateway to jungle-tangled temples – is an easy add-on to any southeast Asia travel itinerary, writes Nicole Trilivas ...

Join me on a mesmerizing journey through Angkor Wat, the heart of the Khmer Empire! Experience the breathtaking architecture and rich history that make this place so captivating. Discover why ...

Restored in the 1940s, the 12th-century Banteay Samre, devoted to the Hindu god Vishnu, recalls the medieval Khmer Empire at its height. The temple is cloistered inside two sets of concentric ...

Angkor Wat is actually just one of more than a dozen magnificent temples in the vast metropolis of Angkor, the capital of the Khmer Empire from the 9th to the 15th centuries. Within Angkor Wat ...

Constructed over a twenty-three-year period, it was one of two rival Khmer Empire capitals – the other being Angkor – and was the sole capital from 928 to 944 CE. Established by King Jayavarman IV, ...

Reliefs of such creatures dot the nearby temples of Angkor Wat, where graceful poses have been frozen in stone for eight centuries by sculptors of the Khmer Empire. This real-life apsara is ...

Part 2 of “The Nirvana Route”: How early encounters between India, China, and Southeast Asia shaped Asian civilization.

The Khmer Empire had extended into northern Thailand by the sixth century, and some of the most famous ancient sites in that country include Phimai, Khorat, Prasat Sikhoraphum (between Surin and ...

The older object, an artefact from the Khmer Empire known as "Head of a Ruler", is a relic rendered in the Angkor style, the opulent architectural movement that gave the former Khmer capital ...

Cambodia, officially the Kingdom of Cambodia, is a country in Southeast Asia, most of whose people consider themselves descendants of the ancient Khmer Empire. But painful memories still endure of the ...