Angkor Wat
The sun rises behind five towers, silhouettes reflecting in the pond before the temple—you've seen this image millions of times, but when you stand there at five in the morning, among hundreds of people with cameras, and the sky begins to turn pink, you understand: no photograph captures the scale. Angkor Wat is the largest religious structure in the world, a temple-city lost in jungle for nine centuries that became a symbol of an entire civilization.
The Khmer Empire
From the 9th to 13th centuries, the Khmer Empire controlled territory from Vietnam to Myanmar. At its peak, the capital Angko...
