Images of the twelfth century temple known today as Angkor Wat have appeared on every Cambodian flag since the country gained its ... Jayavarman was a pious Buddhist, and larger than life size ...

As many as 750,000 people lived in Angkor, its capital, which sprawled across an area the size of New York City's ... the lotus-shaped towers of Angkor Wat—the most elaborate of the city's ...

To the untrained eye, the ruins of Koh Ker look a lot like Angkor Wat: weathered masonry ... This is astonishing, given the size and diversity of this region, but certain locales are magnets ...