No one really knows why the cities were abandoned. Some claim that a bloody battle caused people to evacuate, others that it was caused by changes in religion (Khmer's Hinduism was replaced by ...
Restored in the 1940s, the 12th-century Banteay Samre, devoted to the Hindu god Vishnu ... the lotus-shaped towers of Angkor Wat—the most elaborate of the city's temples and the world's largest ...
Angkor Wat, built in the early twelfth century ... He was also the last king at Angkor to patronize the construction of stone temples dedicated to the Buddha and to Hindu gods. In the thirteenth ...
The Angkor site sprawls across some 400 square kilometers (155 square miles), containing the ruins of Khmer Empire capitals from the 9th to the 15th centuries, including the temple of Angkor Wat.
An curved arrow pointing right. Lonely Planet named the Temples of Angkor the #1 travel site in the world. The Buddhist monument in Cambodia has more than 1,000 temples, shrines and tombs.
Some of the best-known landmarks in the world have been inspired by faith and today they attract more visitors than ever before. For some they are places of quiet contemplation, for others they ...