Liu Hangxing is a Doctor in Archaeology who joined the Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage in 2018.Specializing in palace ruins archaelogy and restoration, he will publish his first monograph, Archaeology and Conservation History of Angkor, has been completed and is being proofread by the… Read more

Chhay Rachna is a Cambodian archaelogist, Head of Ceramic Study Office, International Center of Research and Documentation of Angkor, APSARA Authority, Siem Reap, since 2015. A specialist in Angkor Ceramics Arts, Chhay Rachna graduated from the Faculty of Archaeology, Royal University of Fine Arts,… Read more

Sarah Talbot is a researcher at the Anthropology Department, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Read more

Philippe Larsen is a French-Swiss writer who has published two books and various texts in European cultural magazines. Read more

Dr. Ramesh Chandra (R.C) Majumdar (4 Dec. 1884, Khandarpara, Faridpur, Bengal [now in Bangladesh] - 11 Feb.1980, Kolkata, West Bengal, India) was a groundbreaking Indian historian and professor whose 1919 book ‘Corporate Life in Ancient India’ drew new perspective on ancient India, and was one of… Read more

ผกาวรรณ เดชเทวพร Phakawan Dechthewaporn is a manuscript curator and a literature and arts editor at the Thailand Fine Arts Department. Read more

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A French official in Indochina, Albert Tricon (1867, Marseille - ?) served as "Président de la Cour d'Appel" (President of the Appeal Court) in Saigon, "Procureur du Tribunal de 1ere instance" (Public Prosecutor) in Phnom Penh , and as "Conseiller a la Cour" (King's Counsel) in Cambodia. He was… Read more

Raymond Recouly (1876, Saint-Pons-de-Mauchiens- 12 Sept 1950, Montpellier, France) was a newspaper and magazine writer, war reporter and historian who became French Marshal Joffre's biographer during World War I, and traveled extensively across Russia, North Africa, Southeast Asia and China. After… Read more

Grace Gallatin Thompson-Seton (28 Jan 1872, Sacramento, California - 19 Mar 1959, Palm Beach, Florida) was an American writer and suffragist who visited Angkor in 1936, part of a Southeast Asia grand tour she narrated in her 1938 book, Poison Arrows. The adventurous, free-spirited Grace published… Read more

Dr. Haraprasad Ray (1931, Dhubri, Assam, India - 21 July 2019, Kolkata, India) was an Indian scholar in Sino-Tibetan research who explored Chinese sources on South Asia history covering centuries till late 19th century.A professor at Calcutta University, India, from 1953 to 1956, he joined India's… Read more

Raymond Cogniat (14 April 1896, Paris- 20 Feb. 1977, Paris, France) was a French art critic, historian of art and journalist who authored in 1932 Danses d'Indochine, a commented collection of photographs with a focus on Cambodian classical dance. Active since 1918 in the field of avant-garde… Read more

Henri Parmentier (3 Jan.1870, Paris -22 Feb. 1949, Phnom Penh) was a French architect, art historian and archaeologist, one of the first European specialists in the archaeology of Indochina. He has documented, depicted and preserved many Khmer, Cham and Lao monuments.Head of the EFEO in Cambodia… Read more

Louis Adolphe Bonard (27 March 1805, Cherbourg, France - 31 March 1867, Vanves, France) was a French naval officer who was governor of Cochinchina from 1861 to 1863 and, while campaigning against the insurrections, visited Angkor in September 1962. A graduate of École Polytechnique in 1825, he… Read more

The son of Gaspar do Couto and Isabel Serrão Calvos, Diogo do Couto (Lisbon, 1542- Goa, 1616) studied Latin and Rhetoric at Saint Antão College, and philosophy at the convent at Benfica. In March 1559, he traveled to Portuguse India with the Armada of Pero Vaz de Sequeira, took part in the Surat… Read more

Head of research at the National Museum of Asian Arts (Musée Guimet) in Paris, Thierry Zéphir is also a professor at the École du Louvre, where he teaches courses on India and the countries of the Indianized world. Since 1991 he has regularly taught students at the Phnom Penh Faculty of… Read more

Phon Kaseka ផុន កសិកា is a Cambodian archaeologist who had conducted excavations in Cambodia since 1999, and the Director of the Institute of Humanities at the Royal University of Cambodia.His unpublished MA Thesis (Phnom Penh, 2002) considered the Ancient Kiln Site at Cheung Ek. He has been… Read more

Ethnologist Jacques Népote (14 Jan 1943, St-Nazaire d'Aude, France - 26 Jan 2006, Roissy) discovered Cambodia when he was sent to Battambang as a volunteer for the French Cultural Cooperation Service. Three years later, he came back all the way from France by car and started a prolific academic and… Read more

Heng Piphal is a Cambodian archaeologist, currently a postdoctoral scholar at UCLA-Cotsen Institute of Archaeology. After receiving his degree in archaeology from the Cambodia's Royal University of Fine Arts in 2002, and a MA and PhD degree in Anthropology from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa in… Read more

Historian and archaeologist Eric Bourdonneau (1973, Le Mans, France) has been working with EFEO in Cambodia since 1997.After defending his PhD thesis "Indianisation et formation de l'État en Asie du Sud-Est : retour sur trente ans d'historiographie. Matériaux pour l'étude du Cambodge ancien" in… Read more