Jean-Pierre Abel-Rémusat (5 Sep. 1788, Paris - 2 June 1832, Saint-Fargeau-Ponthierry [of cholera]), a pioneer in French sinological studies who held the first chair of Chinese studies at Collège de France in 1814, takes a significant place in Khmer studies as the first Western translator of Zhou… Read more

Meera Abraham (1929?- 16 Oct. 2014, Kadapra, Kerala, India) was an historian of Indian sea-faring merchant trade. Married to Indian diplomat Thomas Abraham (1927-2018), himself an historian who served as High Commissioner in Sri Lanka from 1928 to 1982 and advocated for the Tamil minority rights,… Read more

Khmer Arts Academy offers young members of the Californian Cambodian community (Long Beach and other parts of the USA) an opportunity to achieve a high level of excellence through year-round classical dance training at its Cambodia Town studio or through public performances at community-based… Read more

Dr. Prasanna Kumar (P.K.) Acharya (1890, Calcutta, India -- ) was an Indian scholar, translator, Sanskritist and historian of architecture who published the first complete edition and translation into English of the Manasara Shilpa Shastra (मानसार शिल्पशस्त्र), or Manasara, the ancient Indian… Read more

An Assistant Professor in Tantric Studies at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE) and PSL University in Paris, Andrea Acri (b. 1981) is a researcher in Hinduist and Southeast Asian religions and languages. With a Laurea degree in Oriental Cultures and Language from Sapienza University in Rome,… Read more

Amir Dan Aczel (6 Nov 1950, Haifa, Israel- 26 Nov 2015, Nimes, France) was an Israeli-born American mathermatician, lecturer in the history of mathematics and science, and author of books accessible to a large public who researched in particular the origins of "0". He has recounted how, while… 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

Amina Ahmed Kar আমিনা আহমেদ কর (20 Feb 1930, Calcutta, British India -21 Jan 1994, Calcutta (now Kolkata), India) was a talented art historian and one of the first women abstract artists in India. The daughter of a famous dentist surgeon and Bengali politician, she was a precocious and brilliant… Read more

Jean Ajalbert (pen name Ajalbert) (10 June 1863, Levallois-Perret - 14 Jan 1947, Cahors, France) was a journalist, lawyer and writer active in French Indochina from 1903 to the Second World War. He famously criticized the action of École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO), arguing that the school… 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

Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, known as Père (Abbot) Amiot or Amyot and as 錢德明 (Qian De-Ming) as a mandarin (1 Feb. 1718, Toulon, France - 9 Oct. 1793, Beijing) was a French Jesuit missionary during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor, and studied Chinese literature, astronomy, music, botany, geography,… Read more

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William Anderson is a professional archaeologist who works as Project Manager with Dr Vincent Clark & Associates, a Melbourne-based cultural heritage consultancy. A cultural heritage advisor, he has managed large-scale cultural heritage projects, overseeing and reporting on fieldwork,… Read more

Art historian associated with Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO), Nadine André-Pallois has published several studies on Indochina painters, in particular from Vietnam. Read more

A Professor at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO, Paris), Michel Rethy Antelme (មីស្ហែល ឫទ្ធី អង់តែល្ម) is a linguist, translator and historian specialized in Ancient and Modern Khmer. He has taught translation and linguistics in Cambodia, authored several… Read more

Apsara National Authority អាជ្ញាធរជាតិអប្សរា (ANA) is the official body in charge of the preservation of the Angkor Archaelogical Park, as well as the coordination of international research team in the fields of archaeology, ethnology and history.Created by the Royal Decree of February 19th 1995,… 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

Panggah Ardiyansyah is an educator at the Borobodur Conservation Office, Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia. Specializing in art history and conservation, While curating roving exhibitions on Borobodur Temple across Indonesia, he is an editorial board member of… Read more

Léonard Eugène Aurousseau (12 Jul. 1888, Cannes, France - 24 Jan. 1929, Yerres, France) was a French sinologist, historian and archaeologist who was the Director of École française d'extrême-orient (EFEO) from 1926 to 1929. After studying Chinese language in Paris, he served in Indochina as soldier… Read more

Étienne François Aymonier (26 Feb 1844, Le Chatelard, France – 21 Jan 1929, Paris), French linguist and explorer, was the first French scientist to extensively survey the ruins and inscriptions of the Khmer empire in today's Cambodia, Thailand, Laos and southern Vietnam. Le Cambodge (three volumes… Read more