A French backpacker who went missing in Cambodia has been found dead near Angkor Wat, with police saying she likely suffered ...

Each year, millions of visitors flock to Angkor Wat, an ancient temple in modern-day Cambodia. There, they marvel at the 900-year-old towers, a giant moat and the shallow relief sculptures of ...

The massive sandstone bricks used to construct the 12th-century temple of Angkor Wat were brought to the site via a network of hundreds of canals, according to new research.

But what they can't see are 200 hidden paintings on the temple walls. Many of the faded markings could be graffiti left behind by pilgrims after Angkor Wat was abandoned in the 15th century ...

Angkor Wat was built between the ninth and fifteenth centuries, but was officially rediscovered in 1860 by French naturalist Henri Mouhot. The temple was later restored with the help of both ...

Angkor Wat temple in Siem Reap province some 314 kilometers northwest of Phnom Penh TANG CHHIN SOTHY/AFP/Getty Images The massive sandstone bricks used to construct the 12th-century temple of ...

The Angkor civilization was booming in the early 1100s, when construction began on the Angkor Wat temple site. Built as a re-creation of the Hindu universe, its most striking features are the five ...

Each year, millions of visitors flock to Angkor Wat, an ancient temple in modern-day Cambodia. There, they marvel at the 900-year-old towers, a giant moat and the shallow relief sculptures of ...

Angkor Wat David Licence, iStockphoto 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 ...

The ancient city of Angkor — the most famous monument of which is the breathtaking ruined temple of Angkor Wat — might have collapsed due to valiant but ultimately failed efforts to battle ...

Starting Jan. 1, Angkor Wat will open two hours earlier at 5:30 a.m. for those who want to witness sunrise at the temples. Now back to the monks.

In Siem reap, Cambodia, tourists gather every day before dawn to watch the sun rise over Angkor Wat, a 12th-century temple and the grandest legacy of Cambodia’s once mighty Khmer empire. Even at ...