Archaeologists have recently discovered about a dozen sandstone statues in Angkor, an archaeological site in Cambodia which was once the former centre of the Khmer Empire. The Apsara National ...

Archaeologists have discovered a dozen centuries-old sandstone statues - so-called ‘door guardians’ near an ancient temple in ...

The statues were discovered last week near ... was the last capital of the Khmer Empire. The ancient Royal Palace is a large rectangularly walled area located within Angkor Thom in the Angkor ...

Pedestals where statues once stood littered the ground ... that the jewelry was once worn by the kings and queens of an ancient Khmer Empire that spanned Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand ...

While digging around the palace gate, archaeologists made a “remarkable discovery”: 12 ancient “guardian statues ... for about 600 years by various Khmer kings, according to APSARA ...

Phnom Penh: Archaeologists have unearthed a large, centuries-old statue that is believed to have once stood guard over an ancient hospital ... capitals of the Khmer Empire, dating from the 9th ...

The repatriation includes the “extraordinary” stone sculpture from the 10th century of the female goddess Uma from the ancient royal capital of Koh Ker, it said, adding that the sculpture’s ...