Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a temporary Easter ceasefire in Ukraine, citing humanitarian reasons, the Kremlin ...

Asia, a continent steeped in history and diverse cultures, is adorned with some of the world's most stunning temples. Beyond ...

In a clearing of the tropical forest near the entrance to Ta Som, an 800-year-old temple at Angkor, in northwest Cambodia, two architects are having a friendly argument. For the umpteenth time ...

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 ...

Here’s a list of some of the largest Hindu temples in the world, based on area, structure, and significance. – Location: Siem ...

The archaeological site of Koh Ker is a sacred urban ensemble of numerous temples and sanctuaries including sculptures ... it was one of two rival Khmer Empire capitals – the other being Angkor – and ...

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, ...

starting with Angkor Wat, the most famous of the thousands of temples that span the 400-square-kilometre area. “The locals have always known this was here, but the French came and wrote books ...

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’S Christmas Day, and Paul Wallimann, the owner of a popular restaurant near the iconic temples of Angkor Wat, is nervous about serving a table of 16. Before the pandemic, his cafe would ...

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 ...