For the past thirty years, the Bayon Temple of Angkor Thom has been the centrepiece of an ambitious conservation and restoration initiative, realised through the concerted efforts of UNESCO, Japan, ...

Siem Reap is the launch-pad to over 50 Angkor temple ruin sites, reclaimed from the jungle and swooned on by tourists. Further afield, many others are still submerged and out of bounds because of the ...

On the 1 February 2025 a scientific divulgation symposium was held at the Waseda University in Tokyo, to celebrate the 30 th anniversary of the “Safeguarding the Bayon Temple of Angkor Thom” project, ...

CAMBODIAN and Japanese archaeologists have since January unearthed about 1,000 artefacts buried beneath Bayon temple in Angkor Thom, according to a report released Tuesday during a conference ...

Archaeologists have recently discovered about a dozen sandstone statues in Angkor, an archaeological site in Cambodia which was once the former centre of the Khmer Empire. The Apsara National ...

SIEM REAP, Cambodia – THE DAYS of hacking through a jungle and fending off leopards and wild elephants before entering the gates of Angkor Wat are long gone. Most of today’s visitors arrive at Angkor ...

The giant crumbling stone architecture of Bayon soared above the jungle, greeting our group of travelers on the second stage of our journey. The ancient vaults of Bayon are central to the Angkor Thom ...

Faces, faces everywhere and one can’t escape from them as we traverse a huge area of nine square kilometres that itself has no walls or moats. This entire landscape is straddled with giant stone faces ...

The very name Siem Reap conjures images of one stellar temple: Angkor Wat, the most beautifully preserved structure within the entire Angkor Archaeological Park complex, which spans a whopping 800 sq ...