Jean Przyluski (17 August 1885, Le Mans, France – 28 October 1944) was a French linguist, a Vietnamese language specialist and a and scholar of comparative religion studies and Buddhism of Polish descent. He studied under the direction of French Orientalist Sylvain Lévi, and succeeded Louis Finot… Read more

Philippe Gras (16 Apr. 1942, Paris - 2007, Paris) was a French freelance photographer who worked extensively in Angkor while he joined in the 1980s the shooting of Angkor, la gloire et l'oubli, a film directed by Pierre Philippe. As a conscript in Algeria, he photographed the country and its people… Read more

HE Nouth Narang (17 Jan 1937, Kratie, Cambodia - 9 Aug 2023, Paris, France) was a Cambodian diplomat, professor and statesman, a Khmer civilization scholar who was the Minister of Culture and Fine Arts of Cambodia just after Angkor was inscribed to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1992.From 1963… Read more

Michel Butor (4 Sep 1926, Mons-en-Baroeul, France – 24 Aug 2016, Contamines-sur-Arves, France) was a French poet, novelist, teacher, essayist, art critic and translator, a figure of the 'Nouveau Roman' French literary trend, and a prolific travel writer (or rather 'writer-voyager') with his series… Read more

Till F. Sonnemann is an archaeologist, geophysician and researcher with the Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg, Institut für Archäologie, Denkmalkunde und Kunstgeschichte, Germany. An alumnus of University of Münster, University of Sydney, and Universiteit Leiden, his PhD thesis was: Angkor… Read more

Ieu Pannakar អៀវ បណ្ណាការ (21 Feb. 1931 – 10 May 2018, Phnom Penh) was a Cambodian film director and statesman, who cofounded with film director Rithy Panh the Bophana Center. One of the first Cambodian citizens to study cinema in France, he frequently collaborated with King Norodom Sihanouk for… Read more

Tyta Buth, artist name Tytaart (b. 3 Nov. 1996, Phnom Penh, Cambodia) is a Cambodian photographer who developed her passion while studying at the New York Parsons School of Art and Design. After exploring street candid photography, she has focused since her return to Cambodia on portrait… Read more

Taizo Ichinose 一ノ瀬 泰造 (1 Nov. 1947, Takeo, Saga Prefecture, Japan - 29 Nov. 1973, Siem Reap, Cambodia) was a Japanese war photographer killed by Khmer Rouge soldiers while heading to Angkor Wat from embattled Siem Reap city on November 29, 1973. Some pictures and press articles about Taizo are… Read more

Sergey Lapteff С. B. Лаптев is a researcher and archaeologist with the Miho Museum, Japan. A graduate from the Maxim Gorky Institute of Literature, Moscow, Russia, he excavated Northwestern Cambodian sites in 2003-2007, and published about the findings. Amongst his other publications: Jomon culture… Read more

Wilhelm Schmidt (16 Feb. 1868, Hörde, Germany — 10 Feb. 1954, Fribourg, Switzerland) was a German anthropologist and linguist, and a Roman Catholic priest active in the Society of the Divine Word, who led the influential cultural-historical European school of ethnology and proponed in 1906 the… Read more

HM King Norodom Sihamoni នរោត្តម សីហមុនី (b. 14 May 1953, Khemarak Palace, Phnom Penh, Cambodia) became King of Cambodia on 14 October 2004, a week after the abdication of his father, Norodom Sihanouk. The eldest son of Norodom Sihanouk and former Queen Consort Norodom Monineath -- his given name… Read more

Dr. Ramesh Chandra (R.C) Majumdar (4 Dec. 1884, Khandarpara, Faridpur, Bengal [now in Bangladesh] - 11 Feb.1980, Kolkata, West Bengal, India) was an Indian historian and professor whose 1918 book Corporate Life in Ancient India drew new perspective on ancient India. Dubbed "the Doyen of Bengali… Read more

Corinne Rivoallan is a French public relations consultant and photojournalist who stayed five years in Cambodia in the 1990s.Now living in Wellington, New Zealand, she completed a Diploma in Business Studies (Public Relations), some social anthropology papers and a development studies paper with… Read more

J.V.G. Mills (1887, Hastings, UK -1987, Geneva, Switzerland) was a British colonial administrator and judge appointed to the Straits Settlements at age 24, a translator from Cantonese, Fukienese and standard Chinese, and a specialist in Southeast Asia seamanship and seaways. Based in Canton for two… Read more

Ma Huan 馬歡 ﻣَﺎ ﺧُﻮًا (c. 1380, Kuaiji, Zhejiang Province, China –1460) [courtesy name Zongdao 宗道, pen name Mountain-woodcutter 會稽山樵] was a Chinese voyager and translator who accompanied Admiral Zheng He on three of his seven expeditions to the Western Oceans. Like Zeng He (romanized Cheng Ho) --… Read more

Fray (Friar) Marcelo de Ribadeinera (or Ribadeynera) (1560 or 1562, Palencia, Spain - 1606, Salamanca) was a Spanish Franciscan missionary part of the mission to the Philippines that left Sevilla on 9 January 1593 to reach Manila in May 1594 under the supervision of Padre Ortiz Cabezas. He was sent… Read more

Tess Davis is the Executive Director of the Antiquities Coalition, launched in order to "protect our shared heritage and global security, leading the international campaign against cultural racketeering, the illicit trade in ancient art and artifacts. We champion better law and policy, foster… Read more

Dr. Ronald M. Davidson is a professor and researcher in religious studies at Fairfield University, Connecticut, USA., focusing on the social and intellectual aspects of Buddhism in Asia, primarily the Mahayana Buddhist ritual and its crossover into early tantrism in India, from the fifth to the… Read more

Federico Carò is a researcher in archaeology and petrography at the Scientific Department of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MET), New York City, USA. In 2017, he published with M. Polkinghorne and J.G. Douglas ¨Carving at the Capital: A stone workshop at Hariharalaya, Angkor¨(Smithsonian… Read more

Tan Sri Loke Wan Tho 陸運濤 (14 June 1915, Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, British Malaya - 20 June 1964, Taichung, Taiwan) was a Malaysian-Singaporean business magnate in the nascent film industry, an ornithologist, and a gifted photographer.The director of Cathay Organisation in Singapore and Malaysia, and… Read more