The structure is made of sand, is about 1,500m × 600m (about one mile by 1,970 feet) in size and its purpose is unknown. (Image courtesy Khmer Archaeology Lidar Consortium (KALC)) Eight buried towers ...

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Each year, millions of visitors flock to Angkor Wat, an ancient temple in modern-day Cambodia. There, they marvel at the 900-year-old towers, a giant moat and the shallow relief sculptures of Hindu ...

PHNOM PENH, April 26 (Xinhua) -- The restoration work on the southwest and northwest parts of the famed Angkor Wat's Bakan tower in Cambodia has almost been completed, the Apsara National Authority ...

(MENAFN- IANS) Phnom Penh, July 11 (IANS) The restoration work on the northeast corner of Angkor Wat's Bakan Tower in Cambodia's Angkor Archaeological Park is making remarkable progress, said an ...

The temple of Angkor Wat was much larger and more complex than previously thought, University of Sydney archaeologists have discovered. The University of Sydney's Professor Roland Fletcher and Dr ...

Researchers used LIDAR or ground-penetrating radar and airborne light detection and ranging techniques to detect several structures that are yet to be excavated. An immense structure to the south of ...

While visiting Angkor Wat earlier this year, I was overwhelmed by the number of visitors cramming into the temples. I'm not the only one who noticed the crush of people: Rumors swirled that Angkor may ...

Cambodia's Apsara National Authority (ANA) said Thursday it has been working to consolidate the central tower of Cambodia's famed Angkor Wat, which is also known as the Bakan tower. Hourn Sokcheat, ...

Crowds hug the reflective pools waiting for the morning sun to saturate the chiseled towers of Angkor Wat, the largest religious monument on earth. Then, after a day or so, they go. Angkor Wat, in the ...

Each year, millions of visitors flock to Angkor Wat, an ancient temple in modern-day Cambodia. There, they marvel at the 900-year-old towers, a giant moat and the shallow relief sculptures of Hindu ...