Angkor Wat
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But he is hopeful tourists will return to the Angkor archaeological park -- home to scores of temple ruins from the Khmer Empire, including the Bayon Temple and top attraction, Angkor Wat.
From Barron's ● Dec. 24, 2025
I meet Sothea on a hot and sticky afternoon this summer, in Siem Reap, a town close to Angkor Wat and the other monuments that first drew Johnson to Cambodia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2025
He took the first known photographs of the temple of Angkor Wat, in the country known today as Cambodia.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2024
She visited ancient cities and holy places: Angkor Wat in Cambodia, Machu Picchu in Peru, Timbuktu in Mali.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 1, 2024
Covering more than twenty-five miles of temples, Angkor Wat was built by powerful Khmer kings as monuments of self-glorification in the ninth century and completed three hundred years later.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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