Avoid the crowds at these lesser known alternatives to Angkor Wat—which include Cambodia’s newest addition to the UNESCO World Heritage List. Temples such as Sambor Prei Kuk, a UNESCO ...

The Khmer Empire built the temples of Angkor amid the lush forests of Cambodia nearly 900 years ago, just as a religious shift from Hinduism to Buddhism was beginning. Heavenly towersThe Angkor ...

Hindu temples are monumental structures that embody the spiritual, cultural, and architectural essence of Hinduism. More than ...

Bigger than Greater Glasgow and decked in detailed bas-reliefs, the Unesco-venerated temples of Angkor in Cambodia’s second-largest city of Siem Reap are an outlier of sorts when it comes to ...

If you've heard of one Cambodian temple, it's probably Angkor Wat -- an awe-inspiring yet well-trodden UNESCO World Heritage Site in Siem Reap. But many travelers don't realize the Seventh Wonder ...

Could it shed new light on the early years of the Khmer civilization that went on to build the great medieval city of Angkor, home of the spectacular temple of Angkor Wat? Now, an international ...

Then, after a day or so, they go. Angkor Wat, in the town of Siem Reap, and the hundreds of almost equally inexplicably grand temples that surround it, provide an endowment to the nation of ...

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 above) in Cambodia, where "scale ...

A new trend at Cambodia's world-famous Angkor temples is sparking a lively debate among cultural anthropologists, as tourists increasingly embrace a real-life version of the popular mobile game Temple ...

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 ...