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 ...

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 ...

Discover the majestic beauty of Cambodia’s most iconic temples — Angkor Wat and Ta Prohm. In this journey, we walk through ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rising out of the Cambodian forest, Angkor Wat is the world’s largest religious compound with a long history intertwined with the rise and fall of the Khmer Empire. In the 12th century, hundreds of ...

Amid the splendour of the 12th-century temple at Angkor Wat, they stand and stare like silent sentinels, sensuous rather than erotic, carved with elegance and care. But exactly who are these 1,786 ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the astonishing and massive Cambodian temple commissioned by Suryavarman II in the 12th century, a centre for Hinduism, Buddhism and Animism. Show more Melvyn Bragg and ...