Walking through Angkor Wat is more than cultural tourism. It’s a sensory journey that blends history, spirituality, and awe inside one of the most powerful places on Earth.

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 ...

Archaeologists have shed new light on an ancient city hidden in the Cambodian jungle that was once the capital of the powerful Khmer Empire. The empire ruled over vast swathes of Southeast Asia ...

Angkor, the ancient capital of the Khmer Empire, has been mapped for the first time using laser light. The technique called LIDAR, which uses billions of reflected light beams to map the topography ...

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 ...

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 ...

in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a sediment core taken from the West Baray reveals evidence of an extended drought in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Angkor Wat, the seat of ...

World-renowned US magazine Forbes has selected Cambodia’s Angkor Empire Marathon as one of the 12 hottest, most attractive marathon events that will take place worldwide in 2026. The January 18 ...

In our regular series, household names revisit the favourite holiday destinations of their youth. This week, the travel writer and historian William Dalrymple returns to Angkor Wat... I first went to ...

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 ...