Artist’s interpretation of daily life inside Angkor Wat’s fourth enclosure, late 12th century. Illustration: Tom Chandler, Mike Yeates, Chandara Ung and Brent McKee, Monash University, 2021 Angkor, in ...

How big were the world’s ancient cities? At its height, the world’s first city of Uruk may have had about 40,000 people about 5,000 years ago. In the medieval period, London may have had a population ...

A new excavation on an iconic Cambodian temple reveals who worked there, how they lived, and how they may have been conquered. The Temple at Angkor Wat is an icon, both within Cambodia and around the ...

Set out on a journey across the globe to witness the world's most famous landmarks, from Angkor Wat to the Eiffel Tower.

At its height in the 13th century, Angkor boasted a population of around 700,000 to 900,000. Christian Haugen via Flickr under CC BY 2.0 During the 13th century, the southeast Asian city of ...

Discover the majestic beauty of Cambodia’s most iconic temples — Angkor Wat and Ta Prohm. In this journey, we walk through the ancient halls of Angkor Wat at sunrise, then venture into the ...

Angkor Wat has triumphed across the centuries to emerge at the world's top tourism landmark in TripAdvisor's Traveler's Choice awards—for the second time since 2015. The travel website used — what ...

The massive sandstone bricks used to construct the 12th-century temple of Angkor Wat were brought to the site via a network of hundreds of canals, according to new research. The findings shed light on ...

Jared Cahners, an expatriate who has been living in Cambodia for about 10 years, woke up early. At 6am, he was at Angkor Wat, the world’s largest religious monument, to see the day dawn. It is an ...

Google may do a bit more evil that it would like to admit, but its growing Street View archive on the world's great places -- warts and all -- is nothing but good. Google Maps has added Cambodia’s ...

Looking to give your next vacation selfie a little something extra? Consider the naked tourism trend, which has been troubling authorities at major tourist attractions such as Peru’s Machu Picchu and ...