Oliver William Wolters (8 June 1915, Reading, UK – 5 December 2000, Ithaca, N.Y., USA) was a British academic, historian and author who did pioneering work on the ancient Malay kingdom of Srivijaya, following the groundbreaking studies by George Coedès. He was also a Malayan civil servant and… Read more

Marie-Etienne-Auguste Barth (22 March 1834, Strasbourg - 15 Apr 1916, Audierne, France) was a secondary school teacher in his native Alsace (in Bouxwiller) when he started to study ancient Indian literature and Sanskrit by himself. Within less than two decades, the self-taught Indianist became one… 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

Sachchidanand Sahai (6 March 1941, Bihar, India) is an Indian epigraphist, scholar and writer who wrote several essays on Angkorean civilization, and served as scientific advisor to the Government of Cambodia for the restoration of Angkor Wat and the Temple of Preah Vihear. His study on the latter… Read more

Ajay Kamalakaran is an Indian independent researcher and writer who regularly contributes to the online magazine Scroll.in.Based in Mumbai, Ajay develops a special interest in Russia and ex-USSR, and has authored three books about or set in that country. He also published several essays on… Read more

Brice Vincent is a member of Ecole Française d Extreme Orient (EFEO), specializing in archaeometallurgy. The Head of Siem Reap EFEO branch since 2019, he conducted several exploration projects in Angkor Thom, focusing on ancient bronze workshops. Read more

Scottish photographer and geographer John Thomson (14 June 1837, Edinburgh – 29 Sept. 1921, Edinburgh) was a pioneer in photographying the ruins of Angkor in 1866, part of his ten-year long travel stint across Asia after joining his elder brother William in Singapore in 1862.When he left for the… Read more

Dr.Nai Pan Hla is a researcher at the Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. He is the author of A short Mon History (Myanmar Knowledge Society, Yangon, 2013). Dr. Pan Hla has also published Eleven Mon Dhammasāt Texts (collected… Read more

Hiroki Hattori 服部博紀 is a graduate student at Waseda University, Tokyo. Read more

Born on the eastern coast of Sri Lanka, Mohanapriyan Thavarajah is a young male Bharatanatyam artist and choreographer based in Singapore, as a principal dancer, resident choreographer and dance faculty member with Apsaras Arts Dance Company and Academy. Studying various Southeast Asian dance… Read more

Created in Paris in 1946 at the initiative of Chauncey J. Hamlin (US), who became the first President of the organisation, the International Council of Museums (ICOM) adopted its Code of Ethics in 1986. The organization lists more than 15,000 members worlwide. From 1996 on, ICOM reinforced its… Read more

Chaijitvanit Somkid is a Thai freelancer photographer and illustrator, after being the first female staff photo-reporter for the two major Thai newspapers in English language, The Nation and The Bangkok Post. In August 2016, Somkid curated an exhibition of artwork created in Buddhist nuns from… Read more

Francesco Brighenti is an independent researcher specializing in South and Southeast Asian studies, based in Venice (Italy).His Phd (History) thesis at Utkal University, Bhubaneswar (India), dealt with Śakti cult in Orissa [Odisha] (1997) and was later expanded into a book (Shakti Cult in Orissa,… Read more

Ing Phousera (artist's name Séra) (b. 1961, Phnom Penh, Cambodia) is a visual artist who has been exploring the themes of exile, civil war, social amnesia and remembrance. Escaping the Khmer Rouge storming Phnom Penh in 1975, he took refuge in France with her mother and two siblings, while their… Read more

Harry Leonard Shorto (19 Sep 1919 – 30 July 1995) was a British philologist and linguist who specialized on the Mon language and Mon-Khmer studies, teaching at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, GB, until he retired in 1984. While he was attending Cambridge… Read more

Phuoeng Sophean ភឿង សុភ័ណ្ឌ (23 April 1958, Siem Reap - 6 Oct. 2020, Phnom Penh) was a Cambodian architect and statesman who initiated the restoration of the Iron Palace at the Phnom Penh Royal Palace in 1991. A son of a renowned Siem Reap architect, he developed a special interest in architectural… Read more

Stephen A. Murphy is historian of art and archaeology specializing in early Buddhism and Hinduism in Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia and Malaysia, Pratapaditya Pal Senior Lecturer in Curating and Museology of Asian Art at SOAS, University of London. He particularly studies the period spanning the… Read more

Paul François Joseph Le Faucheur (31 Oct. 1833, Pondichéry (Puducherry), French Indies - 8 May 1874, Phnom Penh) was a French Navy officer, an entrepreneur and and businessman who became close to HM King Norodom I of Cambodia in the 1860s-1870s, and was involved in several dealings regarding the… Read more

Angkor Database - មូលដ្ឋានទិន្នន័យអង្គរ - 吴哥数据库 All you want to know about Angkor and the Ancient Khmer civilization, how it keeps attracting worldwide attention and permeates modern Cambodia. Indexed and reviewed books, online documentation, photo and film collections, enriched authors'… Read more

Auguste Achille Hippolyte Filoz (4 Nov. 1832-?) was a French Navy officer specializing in molding who took part in the 1873 Mission Delaporte and became a member of the "Société des Orientalistes" (Orientalist Society) after his journey through South-East Asia.Traveling along Etienne Aymonier, he… Read more