Who took the last photographs of Angkor before the Khmer Rouge takeover?

The six-decade history of the one and only accommodation inside Angkor Archaeological Park.

In English

How a scholar and translator from India at the Chinese Tang court went twice to Chenla to spread the Tantric-Buddhist faith and collect "divine medicine".

In French & Chinese

Young women architects lead the renovation of the severely damaged Angkor Thom West Gate and of the Bayon platforms.

In English & Khmer

The etymology and meaning of the names of twenty-six illustrious queens of Ancient Cambodia.

In English

An exploration of Khmer inscriptions andTantric influences, with a stimulating take on the ever-elusive Bayon and the enigmatic figure of Tumburu over Angkor.

In English & Sanskrit

When legends meet etymology: the quest for the meaning of Angkor temples names.

In English

The case against George Coedès, not as an epigraphist but as an 'historian with the wrong framework'.

In English

Novel insights on Funan and Chenla as reflected in Chinese chronicles, by a renowned linguist.

In French

Architectural, cosmological and philosophical inspirations from India on the Khmer style, studied by two Indian scholars.

In English

A powerful description of post-World War II Cambodia, with a French administration in turmoil and a suffering population.

In French

New perspectives on the Dvaravati take on Buddhism and its linguistic and cultural vinculation to Khmer ethnic group.

In English & Chinese

One of the earliest (16th April-21 June 1854) accounts of Cambodia in the English language by a traveler who had both military and business connections.

Way before Princess Buppha Devi's reinvention of the Royal Ballet of Cambodia, a premonition of the "Apsara Princess" figure so central in Cambodia's modernity.

In French

A summary of Oc Eo archaeological finds and their importance from a Vietnam touristic angle.

In English

The flamboyant Titayna and her Surrealist 'gratuitous art' in Angkor Wat. Provoking the gods, challenging the humans, asking a question that still haunts us.

In English & French

Captions prepared for two narrative steles on the life of the Buddha discovered in Angkor, Cambodia, and now kept at the National Museum of Cambodia.

In English, French & Khmer

Realizing he had overlooked the significance of Angkor in his previous travelogues, the resourceful and pugnacious abbot came back with a vengeance later.

In French

50 kms from the city of Hoi An, My Sơn is the largest and most important of Champa’s religious architectural sites, with some seventy structures.

In 2010, Princess Norodom Buppha Devi agreed for the very first time to participate in a television series project about the Royal Ballet and her life.

In English & Khmer

Inscriptions reflect a unified and diverse Kingdom of Champa in the 15th century, before its collapse.

In English

How the Greeks made their own discovery of the monsoon trade winds.