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Home / Regional / Asia / Cambodia / Localities / Angkor
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- Angkor - History of Cambodia's 800-year-old temple city, ancient capital of the Khmer, description of Khmer architecture and photographs of the main temple Angkor Wat from Vets With A Mission.
www.vwam.com/vets/angkor/angor1.htm
- Angkor Cyber Gallery - Online galleries of Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom.
www.CulturalBridge.com/angkor.htm
- Angkor Temples - Flash-based interactive guide to the ruins, in English and French. Incorporates images and text via a clickable map.
biendi.chez.tiscali.fr
- Angkor Wat - Plan and outline history of the ruined capital. At the Internet Travel Guide.
www.pmgeiser.ch/cambodia/places/angkorwat.htm
- Architecture of Angkor - Interactive plan and images of each of the face-towers of the Bayon. Study by Waseda University, Japan.
www.waseda.ac.jp/projects/AsianArch/sites/cambd-E.html
- Authority for the Protection and Management of Angkor and the Region of Siem Reap - Includes information on the site and the preservation effort, a bi-annual bulletin, legal texts and bibliography.
www.autoriteapsara.org
- Butenet: Angkor - Images of the site, taken in February 2002. By Max Buten.
buten.net/max/angkor/index_angkor.html
- Cambodia- Angkor - Photographs by Thomas Beringer, with clickable map of the area. Also includes advice on visiting the area.
www.angkor-net.de/english/index-e.html
- German Apsara Conservation Project - Conservation and documentation initiative focusing on the sculpted figures of Angkor. Includes recent and historic photographs of the ruins.
ospiti.thunder.it/gacp
- Guide to the Angkor Monuments - Translation (by Nils Tremmel) of Maurice Glaize's 1944 guide to the famous architectural ensemble. Includes its origins in the history of the Khmer empire and a full description with map and photographs.
www.theangkorguide.com
- Indochina Snapshot: Rediscovering Ancient Angkor - Travel article by John Spragens Jr, with photographs.
www.enigmaterial.com/icsnap/angkor.html
- michaelfreemanphoto.com - Collection of photographs that includes the monuments at Angkor photographed over 12 years by an author of books on Khmer temples. Clicking Images: Collections: The Angkor Collection takes the visitor to extensively captioned images, including dates, styles, iconography.
michaelfreemanphoto.com
- Royal Angkor Foundation - Description of the research and conservation projects undertaken by this Budapest-based organisation, including the Preah Ko project and the Angkor Radar Project (based on NASA imagery).
www.angkor.iif.hu
- Sculptures and Bas-reliefs in Khmer Art - Article on Angkor's artworks, with photographs and glossarised terms. By Olivier Saltet.
www.bergerfoundation.ch/Angkor/Sculptures_eng
- SIR-C/X-SAR views Angkor, Cambodia - A deep radar image of Angkor taken in 1994 by NASA, and the story behind it. Important because it has led to new discoveries north of the main temple group. 32-MB image can be downloaded.
www.jpl.nasa.gov/radar/sircxsar/angkor.html
- Temples of Angkor - Includes basic introduction and over three hundred photographs organised as a virtual tour.
communities.msn.com/TemplesofAngkor
- Urban Growth in Angkor - A project of the University of Sydney School of Archaeology interested in the studying the limits of pre-industrial, urban growth in Angkor.
www.archaeology.usyd.edu.au/research/angkor/angkor.html
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