The city of Angkor was once the seat of the Khmer Empire in Southeast Asia. Starting about the year 802, Angkor flourished. But by 1430, the city was mysteriously abandoned, then swallowed up by ...

How big were the world’s ancient cities? At its height, the world’s first city of Uruk may have had about 40,000 people about 5,000 years ago. In the medieval period, London may have had a population ...

Rising from the jungles of Cambodia, the Khmer Empire became the dominant power of mainland Southeast Asia from its capital ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The California Science Center premiered "Angkor: The Lost Empire of Cambodia," a special exhibition and 3D IMAX movie featuring engineering and cultural marvels of an ancient ...

Premieres Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream with KPBS+/ Encores Sunday, Feb. 1 at 3 p.m. on KPBS TV and ...

World-renowned US magazine Forbes has selected Cambodia’s Angkor Empire Marathon as one of the 12 hottest, most attractive marathon events that will take place worldwide in 2026. The January 18 ...

Many people who fled Cambodia in the 1970s, escaping the brutal genocide orchestrated by the Khmer Rouge, have never seen Angkor Wat — the temple complex that has been a constant in the Cambodian ...

Angkor, the ancient capital of the Khmer Empire, has been mapped for the first time using laser light. The technique called LIDAR, which uses billions of reflected light beams to map the topography ...

How big were the world's ancient cities? At its height, the world's first city of Uruk may have had about 40,000 people about 5,000 years ago. In the medieval period, London may have had a population ...

New evidence sheds light on the remarkable life—and mysterious collapse—of the ancient jungle city. Deep in the Cambodian jungle lie the ruins of Angkor, a marvel of urban engineering and seat of the ...