Yet nothing has moved him in the same way as Angkor Wat (see above) in Cambodia, where "scale ... October), when you can stand quietly among ruins embedded in the surrounding rain forest.

KYOTO--A box that sat for decades in a university library storeroom here yielded a trove of photos presumed to have been taken at Cambodia ... Angkor Wat, the crowning glory of the temple ruins ...

sacked Angkor in 1431. It was abandoned and left to decay, doomed to the same fate as its predecessor, Mahendraparvata. “There are in the kingdom of Cambodia the ruins of an ancient city ...

Bigger than Greater Glasgow and decked in detailed bas-reliefs, the Unesco-venerated temples of Angkor ... adorning Cambodia’s national flag. Home to the jungle-swallowed ruins of the ninth ...

At first it is no more than an umber smudge in the forest canopy of northern Cambodia. Beneath us sprawls the lost city of Angkor, now in ruins and populated mostly by peasant rice farmers.

The Angkor site is one of the largest archaeological sites in the world, spread across some 400 square kilometers (155 square miles) in northwestern Cambodia. It contains the ruins of Khmer ...