Jules Marcel Brossard de Corbigny (14 Apr. 1841, Orléans - 14 Dec. 1934, Meung-sur-Loire, France) was a French Navy officer (lieutenant-de-vaisseau capitaine and contre-amiral) and cartographer, famous for his journey on elephant back from Saigon to Bangkok in Jan-Feb 1871, when King Norodom asked… Read more

Prince Konstantin Alexandrovich Viazemsky, Князь Константи́н Алекса́ндрович Вя́земский (1852, Ратмино-Ratmino, Russian Empire -1903, Святая гора Афон-Sacred Mount Athos, Macedonia) was a Russian traveler, botanist and aristocratic 'enfant terrible' who visited China, Southeast Asia and Cambodia in… Read more

Educationist, historian and sociologist Edouard Petit (17 March 1858, Marseille - 19 Feb. 1917, Perpignan, France) was an Inspector-General of French Public Education, a professor and an essayist who promoted the 'civilizing mission' of French colonialist endeavor. After presenting a doctorate… Read more

Author of popularization history and geography books, Vera Yakovlevna Kolokolnikova (Колокольникова Вера Яковлевна), was a 'very prolific and popular published author in Moscow at the turn of the century', to quote the document 'Russian Female Writers'. Among her books registered at the Russian… Read more

Grigory Alexandrevich de Vollan (also de Vollant or de Wollant, name of Dutch origin) (Г.А. де Воллан, 20 Feb. 1847, St. Petersburg – 28 Apr. 1916, Yalta) was a noted Russian diplomat, traveler, ethnographer, and publicist who served in the Imperial Asian Department and in consulates in Budapest… Read more

Lieutenant-de-vaisseau (French Navy Lieutenant) Marie Joseph François Garnier (in Vietnamese, Ngạc Nhi) (25 Jul. 1839, Saint-Étienne - 21 Dec. 1873, in action during the Hanoi siege) was one of the first French explorers to extensively write about Cambodia, the Mekong River, Indochina, Tibet and… Read more

Elena A. Zapadova (Западова Елена Александровна, 22 Feb. 1938, Leningrad - 21 Oct. 1991, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian Orientalist and philologist specialized in Burmese language and history.She authored numerous essays and books, including In The Land Where The Irrawaddy Flows (В стране, где… Read more

In 1886, a N.V. Sultanov published the first major scientific research on Khmer Art in Russian, in the Bulletin of the Imperial Academy of Arts (Xмерское искусство). Soviet and Russian historians have never identified the author so far. Our guesswork is that he might have been N.V. Sultanov, the… Read more

Mystery novelist, libertarian pamphleteer, co-founder of the famous French periodical "La Revue Universelle", Jules Lermina (27 Mar 1839, Paris - 23 June 1915, Paris) wrote many Edgar Allan Poe-inspired novels, including Les Loups de Paris (Parisian Wolves, 1876, under the pseudonym of William… Read more

Colin Sterling, a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Archaeology, University College of London, and an associate researcher for heritage consultancy with Barker Langham, is since January 2021 Assistant Professor in Memory and Museums at the University of Amsterdam. His research focuses on… Read more

Kenro Izu (井津 建郎, Izu Kenrō, 1949, Osaka, Japan) is a worldwide acclaimed photographer who published two books on Angkor, Light Over Ancient Angkor (Friends Without A Border, 1996, with all proceeds donated to the association he founded) and Passage to Angkor (id., 2006, with poems by Helen… Read more

Henri George Kennedy was a Student Interpreter at the British Consulate in Bangkok when he met pioneer photographer J. Thomson and went with him in his famous travel through Cambodia in January-May 1866. Fluent in Thai (Siamese), H.G. Kennedy is credited to have saved Thomson's life when the latter… Read more

A Honorary Research Fellow at Cardiff University, Cardiff School of History, Archaeology and Religion, and a Research Associate with the Smithsonian Institution, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery (FSGA), Nancy Beavan has explored several Cambodian sites as a investigator and… Read more

Jane Allen is an historian, archaeologist and environmentalist specialized in Malaysia Peninsula. Her PhD. thesis (1988, University of Hawai'i at Manoa) was entitled Trade, Transportation, and Tributaries: Exchange, Agriculture, and Settlement Distribution in Early Historic-Period Kedah,… Read more

Louise Shewan is the Centenary Fellow (Science) based in the School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne. Her current archaeology project is the 'Plain of Jars Archaeological Project'. The network of some 90 sites across modern Laos has been added to UNESCO World Heritage List since… Read more

Journalist, novelist and poet Jeanne Leuba (8 Nov. 1882, Paris – 24 July 1979, Pettenbach, Austria) depicted in her novels the status of local and expatriate women in colonial Indochina, while getting involved into archaeological and historic research after marrrying EFEO director Henri Parmentier… Read more

Architect and archaeologist Georges Alexandre Trouvé (2 Feb. 1902, Nantes - 18 Jul. 1935, Siem Reap) contributed to many majors discoveries in Angkor area, including Prasat Tor, Pre Rup Temple, the foundation steles of Preah Ko and Bakong, sites at the Roluos Group, or the Ak Yum temple on the… Read more

Christian Fischer is Professor in Residence at Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles.In 2016, he contributed to the Two Buddhist Towers Project (TBT) at Preah Khan of Kompong Svay. Read more

An associate Professor of Geosciences at University of Sydney, NSW, Australia, Dan Penny researches environmental histories. His work ranges from environmental histories of the global tropics, particularly mainland Southeast Asia (with numerous works on Cambodian medieval cities including Angkor)… Read more

CAST:ING (Copper Alloy Sculpture Techniques and history: an International iNterdisciplinary Group) is a project run since 2015 by an international team of conservators, scientists, curators, art historians, historians, archaeologists, archaeometallurgists, and craftspeople, who are studying bronze… Read more