C.R. Boxer (8 March 1904, Isle of Wight-27 Apr. 2000, St. Albans, GB), legendary Far East researcher and scholar, was the chief of British Military Intelligence services in Hong Kong during WWII. His interest in Dutch and Portuguese maritime expeditions during the XV and XVI centuries led him to… Read more

In May 2019, AngkorDatabase and Archimages Cambodia started a fruitful collaboration aimed at making an impressive iconographic fund easily accessible to researchers and all Angkor lovers. Since the 1990s, librarian-editor Jean-Jacques Donard and photographer Philippe Bataillard have been… 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

Anton O. Zakharov (Антон O. Захаров) is a fellow researcher at Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, State University of Psychology and Education and Oriental University, Moscow, Russia. He is thre representative of the Russian Federation in the Board of the European… Read more

Born in Ireland, active in Celtic studies, Aedeen Cremin moved to Australia in the 1970s where she lectured in architecture at University of Sydney and Canberra. With degrees from Universities of Ireland, Strasbourg and Sydney, she specialized in landscape archaeology, especially in North Portugal… Read more

A professor of History at University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA), Anne Ruth Hansen has extensively researched ethical ideas and modern religion representations in South East Asia, with an accent on Theravadin Buddhism.Her MD thesis at Harvard Divinity School in 1988 was titled: "Crossing the River:… Read more

French sinologist and linguist Paul Eugène Pelliot (28 May 1878, Paris- 26 Oct. 1945, Paris) came across the oldest written account on Angkor, The Customs of Cambodia by Chinese diplomat Zhou Daguan, while he was researching the travelogues of famous explorer Marco Polo and the collection of… Read more

Zhou Daguan (also Tcheou Ta-Kouan, Zhu Daguan) ch 周达观 , kh ជីវតាក្វាន់ (chiv takvan), vn Chu Đạt Quan, th โจวต้ากวาน (cho wta kwan)(c. 1270, Yongjia (modern Wenzhou)–? shortly after 1346), a Chinese traveler under the Temür Khan (Emperor Chengzong), authored the sole written and direct account of… Read more

Emeritus Professor, Department of History of Art and Archaeology, School of Arts, University of London, Elizabeth H. Moore (1948, Washington DC, USA - 13 jan 2024, London) has extensively published on the archaeology of Myanmar, Thailand and Cambodia.After her retirement, she moved to Yangon,… Read more

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A movement artist based in Singapore, Chloe Calderon Chotrani (1992, Manila) is a dance theorician and practicioner. Holding a Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Arts from the School of Oriental and African Studies (London) and a BA in Arts Management, she has trained and performed with Romançon Dance… Read more

A platform for performing arts, a meeting point for local artists and curious travelers, Bambu Stage thrives to change perceptions about the history, culture, and issues that impact Cambodia. Bambu Street, Siem Reap, Cambodia Read more

Born in 1973, Michael S. Falser is a professor and researcher in Art History at Heidelberg University, and recently visiting professor at Paris-Sorbonne University. Read more

With Christian Lauersen, co-founder and co-editor of Library Planet, a crowdsourced global resources for libraries around the world. Marie Eiriksson is a member of the IFLA committee. Read more

Daughter of sinologist Georges Maspero (her mother was Cécile Sophie Maspero nee Seyrig), grand-daughter of archeologist and explorer Gaston Maspero (1872-1942), Éveline Porée-Maspero (20 Apr. 1906, Cholon, Cochinchina - 12 July 1991, Saint-Tropez, France) was an ethnoligist and researcher with… Read more

Colonial engineer and amateur photographer Jules Agostini (1859, Arbarella, Corsica -1930, Nice, France) has traveled extensively in the Far East, including Cambodia.His fame as a photographer came to the headlines when unknown photos of French painter Paul Gaugin and some of his Tahitian models… Read more

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Solang (b. Tuk Meas, Cambodia) and Beling (b. Hunan, China) Uk are the authors of the first translation of Zhou Daguan's account on Angkor in the 13th century sourced from Chinese and Khmer versions of this essential testimony about the Angkorian power at its peak, before the Siamese and Cham… Read more

Jean Boisselier (26 Aug 1912, Paris - 26 Feb. 1996, Paris), son of the French military visual artist Henri Boisselier, was a leading specialist in Khmer plastic arts. Curator of Phnom Penh National Museum, he was a member of EFEO (École française d'Extrême-Orient) until 1955, and worked in Angkor… Read more