Dr. Bijan Raj Chatterji (1904, Calcutta (Kolkhata), India - 1987) was an Indian scholar pioneer in the studies of Southeast Asian cultures. After starting his higher education cursus in Punjab, he furthered his research in London and Paris, where he met leading Sanskritists and Khmerologists such… Read more

Jacques Deprat (1880, Fontenay aux Roses, France -7 March 1935, Ansó, Spain, in a mountaineering accident) was a biologist and paleontologist working in Indochina (Hanoi) in the 1910s, who was apparently wrongly accused of fraud and left Southeast Asia in 1919 after a few promising years.Hired for… Read more

Xavier Marmier (22 June 1808, Pontarlet, France – 12 October 1892, Paris) was a French author born in Pontarlier, in Doubs. He had a passion for travelling, and this he combined throughout his life with the production of literature. After journeying in Switzerland, Belgium and the Netherlands, he… Read more

Denise Heywood is an art historian, author, lecturer, photographer and journalist. She worked in Cambodia for three years in the 1990s and has been a scholar of Southeast Asian art ever since. Her books include Ancient Luang Prabang (also in French) and Cambodian Dance: Celebration of the Gods,… Read more

Prof. Ujjwala Chakradeo is the vice-chancellor of SNDT Women's University, Mumbai, India. An architect by trade, she has taught architecture in various institutions -- in particular serving as Head of the Department, Department of Architecture (1997-2002) and Department of House and Interior Design… Read more

Khmer Arts Academy offers young members of the Californian Cambodian community (Long Beach and other parts of the USA) an opportunity to achieve a high level of excellence through year-round classical dance training at its Cambodia Town studio or through public performances at community-based… Read more

Cambodian travel blog launched in 2018 by Avy and a team of wanderlust-stricken young professionals. Read more

Greg Mo is a photographer and videographer (an "image maker", as he likes to define himself) based in Asia. He has covered Sri Lanka, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia, which inspired him several photographic books, including Ride in Cambodia and Angkor Temples. Greg Mo website. Read more

Maurice Raoul Gabriel Menardeau (6 Feb 1897, Limoges, France - 11 April 1977, Curepipe, Mauritius) was a French Navy officer and a post-impressionist painter who pictured many maritime and river scenes across French colonies, including 'Indochina'. After starting his studies at Paris Ecole des… Read more

Jacques Deprat (pen name Herbert Wild) (31 Jul 1880, Fontenay-aux-Roses - 7 March 1935, Ansabere Mountain, France) was a French geologist, paleontologist and novelist active in French Indochina, the first ever case of removal and posthumous rehabilitation from the French Society of Geology. Accused… Read more

T. A. Gopinatha Rao கோபிநாத ராவ் (1872-1919) was an Indian archaeologist and (Tamil and Sanskrit) epigraphist who was appointed the first Superintendent of the Travancore Archaeology Department in 1908, and authored the monumental Elements of Hindu Iconography (Law Printing House, Madras, 4 vols,… Read more

Robert Chauvelot (  was a French colonial administrator, novelist and travel writer who visited Cambodia and Angkor around 1924, part of an extended trip across the Far East.A member of the Conseil supérieur des Colonies (Grand Council of the Colonies), a professor at Paris College des sciences… Read more

Sok Nalys សុខ ណាលីស is a Royal Ballet of Cambodia dancer, a dance teacher and a heritage preservation researcher with DC-CAM (2020-2021), the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts (General Department of Cultural Techniques, since 2021). Nalys contributes research on cultural heritage to Angkor Database… Read more

Paul Émile Marie Réveillère or Paul Branda or Paul Brandat [pen name] (27 May 1829, Saint-Martin-de-Ré, Britanny, France - 26 Jan 1908, Brest), was a French Navy officer, and a writer and journalist best known under the pen names of Paul Branda or Brandat.After studying at École navale in… Read more

Saveros Pou (Saveros Lewitz in the 1960s-1970s) ពៅ សាវរស (1929, Phnom Penh- 25 May 2020, France) was a French linguist of Cambodian origin. A retired research director of the CNRS in Paris, a specialist of the Khmer language and civilization, she carried out extensive work of Khmer epigraphy,… Read more

Frank Vincent Jr. (1847, Brooklyn, NY -1916, New York, USA) was an American explorer, businessman and art collector.The first American citizen to publish a detailed account on Angkor while he was a guest at the court of the King of Siam, left his important collection of Indo-Chinese art to the New… Read more

French artist André Maire (1898, Paris - 1984) has extensively sketched and painted Angkor with both artistic and architectural perspectives. After studying painting under the guidance of his mentor Émile Bernard (1)-- renowned artist whose daughter, Irene, Maire married to in 1922 --, the… Read more

Self-taught orientalist and ethnologist, ardent socialist converted to Georges Clémenceau's patriotic republicanism, founder of one of the richest collections of Khmer studies outside of Cambodia (in his French hometown of Alençon), Adhémard Leclère (12 May 1853, Alençon, France - 16 March 1917,… Read more

William Anderson is a professional archaeologist who works as Project Manager with Dr Vincent Clark & Associates, a Melbourne-based cultural heritage consultancy. A cultural heritage advisor, he has managed large-scale cultural heritage projects, overseeing and reporting on fieldwork,… Read more

Étienne Lunet de Lajonquière (or La Jonquière) (8 Aug 1861, Rodez, France - 23 Dec 1933, Saint-Sigismond, France) was a French Naval Infantry officer, explorer and geographer, author of the first comprehensive Atlas Archéologique de l'Indochine (1901) and, ten years later, the first Inventory of… Read more