Within Angkor Wat, carved bas-reliefs illustrate scenes from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata—epic poems that are also sacred Hindu texts. "Just think that the single temple of Angkor Wat has ...

Indeed, Angkor Wat ... walls are covered with bas-relief sculptures representing Hindu gods and ancient Khmer scenes, as well as episodes from two Sanskrit epics: the Mahabharata and the Ramayana.

The 390-square-mile site is packed with crumbling temples and hidden gems, but no temple sees more visitors than the famous Angkor Wat. And yet ... cover the temple's walls, experts have discovered.

It stretches on a wall 49 metres ... de resistance at the Angkor Wat temple comprises the twin bas reliefs, hundreds of metres long, depicting sculpted scenes from the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.

By 1972, the Khmer Rouge had set up an ammunition depot inside the walls of Angkor Wat. Pro-government troops trying to evict them nicked the main stone doorway with machine gun bullets.

hundreds of thousands of workers built the colossal temple and carved countless intricate figures into its walls—and then, in the 15th century, it was largely abandoned. Today Angkor Wat is ...

The magnificent Angkor Wat is a masterpiece of precision design and craft, and one wonders how its creators acquired their architectural knowledge and skill. The mortarless floors, walls and ...

But what they can't see are 200 hidden paintings on the temple walls. New, digitally enhanced images reveal detailed murals at Angkor Wat showing elephants, deities, boats, orchestral ensembles ...

Sasha Constable is admiring the carvings of the Apsara nymphs on the walls of Cambodia's most famous ancient temple, Angkor Wat. Every year ... the Hindu epic, the Ramayana.

Not far from Angkor Wat, archaeologists have uncovered a network ... and we were encircled by a wall of lychee trees. No roads led there, just a maze of narrow forest tracks we had navigated ...