Angkor Wat is the onetime capital of the Khmer Empire in Cambodia and spiritual center for Buddhists around the world. Now the UNESCO World Heritage site is banning selfies with monks (more on that ...

Photographer Michael Freeman has seen it all. He's been to the Valley of the Kings in Egypt and remote temples in Sudan's Nubian desert. Yet nothing has moved him in the same way as Angkor Wat (see ...

Cambodia, a fascinating country in Southeast Asia, shares borders with Laos, Vietnam, and Thailand. Among its many highlights, the city of Siem Reap stands out as a top destination for one compelling ...

Time is not kind to buildings—even the greatest ones like Cambodia’s Angkor Wat, England’s Roman Baths, and Greece’s Parthenon. But now we get a view into what experts believed seven marvelous ...

The temple of Angkor Wat was much larger and more complex than previously thought, archaeologists have discovered, noting that it had more components than previously envisaged, and was bounded on its ...

At 400 acres, Angkor Wat (“temple city” or “temple that is a city” in Khmer, the language of Cambodia) is considered the largest religious structure in the world. Yet despite its size, it feels ...