Smartphone-toting pilgrims regularly stream into northern Cambodia from all over the world. Their destination: Angkor Wat, a medieval temple that’s famous for massive towers and majestic stone ...

Cambodia, a fascinating country in Southeast Asia, shares borders with Laos, Vietnam, and Thailand. Among its many highlights, the city of Siem Reap stands out as a top destination for one compelling ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cambodia's famous temple of Angkor Wat is one of the world's largest religious monuments, visited by over two million tourists each year. It was built in the early 12th century by King Suryavarman II, ...

Planning your next international trip and craving something beyond beaches, shopping streets, and mountains? Imagine standing before a sunrise that spills golden light over ancient stone towers, ...

Built between roughly A.D. 1113 and 1150, and encompassing an area of about 500 acres (200 hectares), Angkor Wat is one of the largest religious monuments ever constructed. Its name means "temple city ...

The ornate, pinecone-shaped towers of Angkor Wat in Cambodia float above a vast temple complex of shrines, pools, houses, and a perfectly square moat. Today, only a small number of monks remain within ...

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 ...