Temple Specifics

Following Michel Butor's soaring vision of Angkor, the more conventional, scholarly but extremely enjoyable historical essay by Nouth Narang.

An endearing description of Angkor and other Khmer temples, enriched with private conversations with King Sihanouk.

In English

One of the most inspired (and inspirational) travelogues on Angkor in the pioneering times.

In French

The 76 buildings and structures so far identified at the Koh Ker site were built quickly and in five phases, some of them remaining unfinished.

In English

Skimming the archives in France and Cambodia to enhance our views on a murky affair: the André-Clara Malraux looting in Banteay Srei, December 1923.

In English

One of the most inspired (and inspirational) travelogues on Angkor in the pioneering times.

In French

Considerations on Angkor Wat and architectural preservation by a leading Indian archeologist.

In English

Considerations on Angkor and architectural preservation by a leading Indian archeologist.

In English

Some wondrous black-and-white photographs of dancers in Cambodia, Laos, Annam and Tonkin (Vietnam), shot in the 1920s.

An enlightening reflexion on Southeast Asian dances, and in particular on Cambodian court dance.

In French

A vibrant, deep-felt photo essay on Angkorean temples and their spiritual significance, by a major photographer.

In English

From Korea to Cambodia and Lao, a quite perceptive travelogue from the 1920s.

In French

A study of local Khmer values overshadowed by tangible archeological remains in the Angkor area.

In English

A major modernist photographer and globe-trotter captured several Angkor temples in 1960-1962.

An English translation of famous "Le Glaize", the reference 1944 Architectural Guide by Angkor Conservator Maurice Glaize.

In English

One century later, André Malraux's raid on Banteay Srei bas-reliefs is still raising interest and controversy.

In English & French

The spatial development of pre-Angkorean and Angkorean religious and social systems in a vast area spreading from Tonle Sap Lake to Phnom Kulen.

In French

One of the most extensive study in comparative architecture, related to Angkorean and mostly Dravidian Indian temples.

A laudatory, one-sided, study on the less than two years André Malraux spent in then Indochina, from December 1923 to December 1925.

In English

A research project on "Heritage as a Transcultural Concept - Angkor Vat from an Object of Colonial Archaeology to a Contemporary Global Icon."

In English & German

An inspired and perceptive exploration of the remains of the Ancient Khmer civilization at the start of the colonial era.

In French

A milestone photo report on Khmer temples completed just months before the closing-down of the country by the Khmer Rouge.

In English

Never-seen-before photographs of Angkor temples and Siem Reap River dating back to 1968.

A fundamental study on the 'Bayon style' of architecture, which still helps us in better understanding the evolution of Jayavarman VII's reign.

In French

Back to the Siamese statesman's visit to Preah Vihear, claimed by Thai nationalists until the international recognition of Cambodia's rights in 1962

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

In English & Khmer

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

A smart compilation of Angkor daily life and artistic activities in the late 1930s.

In English

Back to the intellectual and aesthetical origins of Hindu architecture and its Southeast Asian derivatives, particularly in the Khmer tradition.

In English

Photographer Raymond Cauchetier was in his thirties when he fulfilled a childhood dream: to see Angkor Wat.

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

In English

The visionary park-museum launched in 1963 by Lek Viriyaphant in Bangkok, "from dawn to the Siam civilization".

In English, Chinese, Thai & Korean

The letter André Malraux sent to French Resident-General after being assigned to house-arrest for looting Banteay Srei temple

In French

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

In English

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

The fascinating temple complex of Koh Ker, on the way between Angkor and Preah Vihear.

In English & Khmer

A tad kitschy, with great photography and some interesting insights.

In English

Space Organization and Indian urbanistic model in Ancient Cambodia.

In French

Following the work of French archeologist Eric Bourdonneau on the Koh Ker site, this captivating documentary summarizes the latest discoveries on Angkorian…

In French & German

How the particular spatial organization of this version of the 'temple-mountain' prefigured Angkor Wat.

In French

Two major restoration projects in Angkor Thom led by the Chinese Academy of Cultural Heritage (CACH)

In English & Chinese

Truncated feet, arms and heads -- the sad pattern of looted artefacts worldwide. A study in sculptuarry art restoration challenges.

In English

TRIBUTE TO THE 81 YEARS OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN NORODOM MONINEATH SIHANOUK

Visit Banteay Chhmar

While the Angkorian civilization never developed a real monetary system, the kingdoms of Funan and Chenla did use various types of money in their transactions.

In English

Major essay on Khmer architecture, past and pre-modern.

In French

A documented profile of the later-acclaimed explorer, who had died in Laos and whose fame had not been yet established.

In French

Far from Angkor, an archeological journey through Cambodia that led to many important discoveries in the 1930s

In French

In-progress: the first immersive 3D museum dedicated to the Khmer heritage in Siem Reap.

In English, French & Khmer

As restituted ancient artworks kept in museums worldwide are being flown back to Cambodia, the controversy around Douglas Latchford collection deepens.

Far from cold scientific studies, an endearing invocation of Angkor and its ancient civilization by an Indian historian, poet and master in esoterism.

A photographic journey through Angkor and its people, "places of the sacred and of the living".

In French & Japanese

The coming to age of a young French woman at a transition period for modern Cambodia.

Artifacts excavated in the Tonle Sap Lake area show links with maritime trade in the pre-Angkorian period, and hellenistic influences that came from India.

In English & Russian

An official yet quite lyrical filmic summary of Modern Cambodia's Golden Age.

In French & Khmer

A temple within the temple? Explorations in the Gopura (Gateway Tower) 4 West area of Angkor Wat might show a more ancient, buried structure.

In English

"Once in a glorious time in the time, there was a king who was law-abiding and generous"....

In English & Khmer

Follow the fish: what fish representations in Angkorean bas-reliefs can tells us about ancient history.

In English

Early China’s interactions with the maritime world and the eventual emergence of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644) as a leading naval power in the 15th century.

In English

Visual simulation of a day in the life of Ancient Angkor.

In English

Sacred images of goddesses remain in the shadowed alcoves of Preah Khan temple.

One of the first (silent) documentaries on Angkor, produced for a French educational film program.

In English & French

A compilation of the imagery of musicians and musical instruments across bas-reliefs in Angkor Wat, Banteay Srei and the Bayon.

In English

With a map of "Indochina", an expanded version of Pere Bouillevaux's 1858 book.

In French

Nearly twenty years before the "re-discoverer" of Angkor Henri Mouhot, a tireless Catholic missionary did visit the ancient Khmer city.

The astonishingly vivid and detailed Geography of India and Indochina by French free-thinker Élisée Reclus.

In French

Photographic essays by famous or budding photographers. A forum for young and confirmed talents, a compilation of reference visual arts renditions of Angkor.

Photographic essays or paintings by famous or budding artists. A forum for creators, a compilation of reference visual arts renditions of Angkor.

The earliest contribution on Angkor published in an European scientific journal by a Southeastasian scholar.

In French

Evidence from an archaeological excavation at the Prasat Hin Phimai in the 2000s.

In English

A journey in time from elite burial rituals in the Neolithic Age to the "temple mausolea" of Angkor.

In English

'In the minds of the Khmers, these ruins were never inert buildings without souls, but monuments with a vital quality that still attracts all who see them.'

In English

Two female dancers statuettes discovered in the 1950s and what they tell us about Khmer art and religion, Tantric Buddhism and the cult of Hevajra.

In English

Unconventional, passionate and stimulating revisitation of Angkorian bas-reliefs, with an emphasis on the female figures of the lost civilization, from queens…

A website dedicated to pre-Angkorian and Angkorian research, entirely in Khmer

A reevaluation of the Koh Ker urban plan based on new archaelogical and scientific explorations since 2006.

In English

The Vihear (Monastery) Phnom Bei, Kulen foothills.

In English & Khmer

Decrypting the enigmatic urban project of Koh Ker with two leading architectural historians from the Japan-APSARA Team for Safeguarding Angkor.

In English

One of the most comprehensive and groundbreaking works on commercial, maritime, cultural and religious links between India and the Southeast Asian entity.

In English

An exhaustive update on contemporary archaelogical finds, and what we do know about the urbanistic development of the Angkorian city.

In English

Pepper and Power: Chinese Port Colonies and Khmer, Siam and Vietnamese rivalries in the Mekong Delta area.

In English

A summary of the many versions of the Kaundinya-Neang Neak story, the founding legend of Cambodia.

In English

The three stages of the building of Angkor Thom gates

In Japanese

The drive for image imitation in jewelry items and the early Southeast Asian maritime routes

In English

The ceremonial and social role of the temple space in early Cambodia reconstructed through inscriptions

In French

South of Phnom Penh, archaelogical research have contributed to a better understanding of the Funan and Chenla periods.

In English

A stimulating study in religious mutations during the King-Builder's reign

In English

Centered on the Bayon, a diachronic reinterpretation of historical assumptions about the reign of Jayavarman VII, and Angkor during the 16th century

In English

The alternance of "bright" and "dull" periods in Khmer sculptuary art.

In French

Comparative solstice alignement of seven major Angkorean monuments in relation to Phnom Kulen and Kbal Spean

In English

Report on ceramics conservation and scientific course for staff training at the Eco-Global Museum, June-August 2013

In English & Khmer

An operational study of transport and communication in Angkorian Southeast Asia (9th to 15th centuries CE)

In English

Preliminary introduction to the Inscriptions, Graffiti, Marks and Sketched Designs in Prasat Top Lech, previously known as Monument 486.

In English

Reconstitution-revival of trumpets and horns as observed on Angkor Wat and Bayon bas-reliefs

In English & French

New findings on regional kingdoms with links to Funan, Angkor and the development and collapse of the Khmer Empire.

In English & Thai

Among the greatest achievments of ancient Khmer sculptors, the gods of Phnom Bok images are kept at Musée Guimet, Paris.

In French

Usurper or legitimate continuator of the Indravarman dynasty in the 11th century? The case for Suryavarman I.

In English

An early exploration of Angkor and surrounding temples by German anthropologist Adolf Bastian.

In English

An epigraphic study on one of the major urban centers preceding Angkor, Hariharalaya.

In French

A 2010 essay on the tensions between Cambodia and Thailand regarding the iconic Preah Vihear Khmer temple.

In English

The shifting importance of deities in pre-Angkorean Cambodia, and its political meaning.

In English

Searching the source of the Khmer civilization in the Mekong Delta.

In English

New historic approach of the builder of Koh Ker, Jayavarman IV.

In English

Were the builders of Phimai following a "visual narrative program"?

In English

The quest for the 'Jayavarman's Triad', by a celebrated Southeast Asian Art historian and curator.

In English

Iron smelting during the last decades of the centralized Khmer Empire.

In English

A documented argument of the 'Fall of Angkor'.

In English

What happened in Khmer art and religious practice during the two last centuries of the Angkorean era?

In French

How we can understand (or not) the names of ancient Khmer temples, settlements and landmarks in their modern forms.

In French & Khmer

The interaction between Tantric Buddhism as developed in the Khorat region of Siam and its Khmer versions across what is no known as Cambodia.

In English

An erudite study of the Buddha seated on a naga icon in Khmer temples, compared to other representations across Asia.

In English

Planet-alignement during the consecration of Banteay Srei Temple.

In English

A synthesis of the architectural history of Prasat Banteay Chhmar, the 'temple-garrison'.

In English

A synthesis of the architectural history of Prasat Banteay Chhmar, the 'temple-garrison'.

In English

A synthesis of the architectural history of Prasat Banteay Chhmar, the 'temple-garrison'.

In English

A synthesis of the architectural history of Prasat Banteay Chhmar, the 'temple-garrison'.

In English

A synthesis of the architectural history of Prasat Banteay Chhmar, the 'temple-garrison'.

In English

A synthesis of the architectural history of Prasat Banteay Chhmar, the 'temple-garrison'.

In English

A synthesis of the architectural history of Prasat Banteay Chhmar, the 'temple-garrison'.

In English

How deforestation and kassava extensive culture have destabilized the Banteay Chhmar water system, an intricate network that had worked for more than 800 years.

In English

The god-figure of Hevajra in the puzzling temple complex of Banteay Chhmar, northwest of Angkor.

In English

A study in the only four statuary representations of a major Angkorian sovereign.

In French

How a constellation of tribes and linguistic systems derivating from Bronze and Iron Ages led to the Angkor civilization.

In English

Who were the "vassal kings" or "governors" in Cambodia's pre-Angkorian times?

In English

A 1931 account of Angkor, "the city of mystery".

In English

Indic Influences on Dance as Devotion in Angkor

In English

From Phimai (Isan Province, Thailand) to Angkor, 225 km graced by Khmer Temples and ancient buildings.

In English & French

Who were the dancers at King Jayavarman VII's court? What was the social status of these highly skilled and sophisticated women? How the Khmer dance art form…

In English

Personal photo-essay by a young Cambodian photographer on Preah Vihear Temple

4 guardian lions unearthed on the 12th century archeological site of Banteay Chhmar.

Photographic essays by famous or budding photographers. A forum for young and confirmed talents.

Photographic essays by famous or budding photographers. A forum for young and confirmed talents.

Angkor Wat in the background of the first Cambodian postage stamp, issued in 1952.

Personal photo-exploration of several temples in the Angkor Wat area

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About the latest major works in the Angkor perimeter, including the renovation of Angkor Thom enclosure wall

In Khmer

A poetical evocation of Angkor history and its significance for Cambodia young generation.

In English

For many years, independent researcher Phalika Ngnin has studied bas-reliefs in order to reach a better knowledge of the Angkorian most powerful women, in…

In English

A rare travel film on Cambodia in the 1930s.

In English

The remarkable devatas of a precious temple in Angkor Thom

A major essay on Southeast Asian trade roads and the growing involvement of agrarian States in worlwide commerce, 7th-14th centuries.

In English

An erudite and intimate study on Preah Vihear and its cliff, "an open air theater for the cosmic dance of Shiva".

In English

A remarkable approach of Angkor and pre-Angkorian structures by a Japanese architect and specialist of Hindu-Buddhist architecture

One of the first Russian extensive accounts of Cambodia at the end of the 19th century, by erudite and diplomat G.A. de Vollan

In Russian

How a young architect became one of the greatest archaeologists and conservators at Angkor.

In French

Probably the most complete study on Koh Ker and the reign of Jayavarman IV.

In French

From Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Madurai (South India) and Canton (Guanghzou), an inspiring travelogue towards Angkor, with a magnificient description, and Oceania.

In French

The prospection, selection and nomination of Cambodian archeological sites to the UNESCO World Heritage Sites List.

In English

"The Mystery of the Deserted Khmer Cities and their vanished splendour; and A Description of Life in Cambodia To-Day"

In English

Silver ( ប្រាក់,'Prak', in Khmer) through Cambodian history, ending with a fine analyzis of regional styles and productions of modern silversmiths.

In English

Paintings and sketches by a prolific artist who visited Angkor starting from 1919.

In French

Originally published in 1926, this is the first study of the "Women's Temple", an exquisite edifice with rich adornements. Written a decade after the temple's…

In English

Through a gallery of vivid portraits, the author describes the fascination Angkor triggered during the modern age among explorers, archeologists, writers,…

In French

The Isanavarma Monuments (AD 615-628) and their surroundings

In French

Close friend of King Norodom Sihanouk´s since childhood, Bernard Philippe Groslier, born in Cambodia the son of famous Khmerologist George Groslier, shares…

In French