Pierre Benoit (16 July 1886, Albi – 3 March 1962, Ciboure, France) was a French novelist, screenwriter and member of the Académie française. Mostly known for his second novel, L'Atlantide (1919), that inspired several feature movies, he became a roving reporter in 1923 and visited various… Read more

Pascal Médeville (b. 8 Dec. 1962) is a professional translator and a writer specializing in Chinese civilization and language.After studying Chinese and Khmer at INALCO Paris, and spending ten years in mainland China and Taiwan, he relocated to Cambodia, where he leads a professional agency and… Read more

Srong Channa (ស្រុង ចាន់ណា) is the founder of the online platform 5000 Years (៥០០០ឆ្នាំ), dedicated to make accessible important documents on Theravada Buddhism and Cambodian culture. The site was founded in 2011 with the approval of the Cambodian Ministry of Cult and Religion, and shares… Read more

Raymond Cauchetier (10 Jan. 1920, Paris - 22 Feb. 2021, Paris) was a self-taught photographer whose work, intimately vinculated to Angkor and Asia, is recognized as one of the major testimonies on culture and arts in the 20th century, since as a movie set photographer he beautifully captured… Read more

Didier Fassio is a film director and writer, and a TV producer, who authored films about Angkor, in particular Le secret des temples d'Angkor (1996) and Angkor, l'aventure du Baphuon (2009). Read more

An Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oregon, USA, Alison Kyra Carter researches the political economy and evolution of complex societies in Southeast Asia. Other research interests include the archaeology of East and South Asia, materials analysis and… Read more

One of the first French planters, breeders and merchants in Cambodia, Octave Vandelet (28 June 1848, Chaumont-en-Vexin, Frances - 30 Sept. 1912, Phnom Penh) started to reside and work in Cochinchina and Cambodia as early as 1873.A close confidant of Kings Norodom and Sisowath, Vandelet served as… Read more

Jules Gervais-Courtellemont (1863, Avon, France – 31 Oct. 1931, Paris) was a professional French explorer, photoengraver and photographer whose photographs of French Indochina and Cambodia were widely published, often without his knowledge.In 1874, the young Jules moved to Algeria with his mother… Read more

Joseph Gervais alias Alfred Raquez (1 June 1864 (?), Dunkerque - 9 Jan. 1907, Marseille, France) was a prolific writer, photographer, traveler and editor who vividly described China, Laos, Cambodia, Siam, Annam, and Java at the turn of the century.Declared bankrupt in March 1898 after some… Read more

Doctor in Archaeology, director of the International Archaeological Research Institute (IARII, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA), David J. Welch has particularly studied the archaeological evidence of Khmer settlements and state organization in Northeastern Thailand. With its laboratories in Hawai'i and Guam,… Read more

លឹម ស្រេង Lim Sreng or Sylvain Lim (b. 1951, Kep, Cambodia) has developed since his childhood a passion for Khmer traditional dance and the Apsara costumes of the Royal Ballet of Cambodia. He'd always remember that, visiting one uncle in Battambang when he was around 7, and asked what present would… Read more

A Doctor in Archaelogy and Environmental Sciences, Thonghlit Luangkhoth is the head of the Department of Heritage, Ministry of Information Culture and Tourism, Vientiane, Lao People's Democratic Republic.As an associate researcher with the University of Melbourne, Australia, he joined several… Read more

Prince Esper Esperovich Ukhtomsky (князь Эспер Эсперович Ухтомский, 26 Aug. 1861, Orianenbaum, Imperial Russia – 26 November 1921, Detskoe Selo) was a poet, publisher and Oriental enthusiast in late Tsarist Russia. He was a close confidant of Tsar Nikolay II and accompanied him when we as Tsarevich… Read more

Nikolay Mikhailovich Przhevalsky or Prjevalsky (Никола́й Миха́йлович Пржева́льский, 12 April 1839, Kimborovo, Russian Empire – 1 Nov. 1888, Karakol (nowadays in Kirghiztan)) was a Russian Imperial geographer and a renowned explorer of Central and East Asia who tried to locate the main springs of… Read more

Marie de Ujfalvy-Bourdon (18 Jan. 1842, Chartres, France - 31 Aug. 1904, Firenze, Italy), and her spouse Károly Jenő Ujfalvy de Mezőkövesd, also known as Charles Eugene de Ujfalvy (1) (16 May 1842, Székelykövesd/Cuieşd, Transylvania – 31 Jan. 1904, Firenze, Italy) were pioneer travelers who… Read more

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