Angkor, in what is now Cambodia, was one of the most populated cities in the world from the 9th to 15th centuries CE. That said, archaeologists have struggled with knowing just how many people ...

The ancient Khmer city of Angkor in Cambodia was the largest preindustrial metropolis in the world, with a population near 1 million and an urban sprawl that stretched over an area similar to ...

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 ...

It's an almost mystical experience to go through the lost city of Angkor in northern Cambodia, site of the 9th to 15th century capitals of the vast Khmer Empire. Epic in size--154 square miles--with ...

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 ...

In the early Middle Ages, nearly one out of every thousand people in the world lived in Angkor, the sprawling capital of the Khmer Empire in present-day Cambodia. But by the 1500s, Angkor had been ...

The ancient city of Angkor in Cambodia was larger in extent than previously thought and fed by a single water system, according to a new map published by an international team of researchers. The ...

A new map made from satellite data reveals Cambodia's Angkor Wat temple was the center of one of the largest cities of the pre-industrialized world. The research also sheds light on the extent of the ...