Temple Specs

20 years of dedication to cultural heritage preservation and the timeless art of Khmer dance.

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

In English, French & Khmer

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

In English & French

An early description of Angkor Wat by a young and curious-minded traveler dating back from 1862. And more about Banteay Srei?

In French & English (ADB Translation)

George Coedès on the first comprehensive archaeological exploration in the area supposed to be the heart of the ancient Kingdom of Funan.

In French

Novelization of the life and challenges of a French Angkor conservator in the 1920s.

In French

The first extensive study of Sambor Prei Kuk site published in the 21th century.

In English & Khmer

Monumental work on pre-Angkorian art from Udon to the Mekong Delta with Sambor Prei Kuk as hypothetical center.

In French

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

In English

The last stately (and glamorous) visit to Angkor before the March 1970 anti-royalist coup that hastened Cambodia's political and social implosion.

In English

A powerful meditation on royal power, artistic creation, ageing, death and the "beautiful statue of a young king sitting silently under the scorching sun."

In English, French & Japanese

An attempt in translating into English one of the poems that marked the birth of Cambodian modern literature.

In English

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

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

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

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

A quite ambivalent account of the 1924 visit to Phnom Penh and Angkor by a Siamese dignitary: shared cultural heritage in a time of rising nationalism.

In Thai

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

In French

An important document on the complex history of boundary definition between Siam [now Thailand] and Cambodia, leading to further historic exploration.

In French

The novel opens with a tracking shot on Nance Abbott (or Anne C. Abbott), a young, All-American young woman "dealing with the drudgery of news illustration and…

In English