15 Year Old Kid Discovers Lost Mayan City
A 15 year old kid has used satellite imagery and some really clever research to predict the location of a Mayan city. In particular,…
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Top 10 (Real Life!) Trapped Tombs, Temples, and Treasures
Take a look at any fiction that has ancient ruins in it, and odds are that it’s going to be trapped. Whether it’s Indiana…
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Angkor Wat
According to legend, Angkor Wat was taken directly from the heavens and placed fully formed in the city of Angkor. When the French explorer…
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Other People’s Adventures at Angkor
Here’s a collection of other travel bloggers’ posts about Angkor that I’ve enjoyed. Let me know if there’s any particularly great ones you know…
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Phnom Bakheng – the Mountain Temple on the Mountain
The loose dirt and leaves crunched underfoot, small stones skittering by. I placed my foot further up and stepped forward, and suddenly the mountain…
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Reading in the Ruins of Banteay Kdei
When Jayavarman II founded the Khmer empire, he knew it would have to have a magnificent capital, and so he founded Angkor. And he…
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Preah Khan – The Rubble in the Jungle
Now this is a ruin. Preah Khan, like its more famous cousin Ta Prohm, has been left largely as it was found, overtaken by…
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The Architecture of Angkor
I love architecture. More than anything else about a ruin, I love the opportunity to experience architecture from every angle. Those the builders intended…
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The Bayon: Faces in the Jungle
We’re shaded from the piercingly hot sun by the jungle above and around us, overstretched plants adding to the shade from my hat and…
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Angkor Week
Tune in all week for stories and adventures from Angkor Wat and the ancient jungle city surrounding it! Angkor Week starts Monday, January 11th…
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