The torso, believed to be from the 12th or 13th century, was discovered during a dig by a team of Cambodian and Indian experts last month at Angkor’s Ta Prohm temple.

Built as a Hindu shrine, Ta Moan temple, also known as Prasat Ta Moan Thom, was dedicated to Shiva as the supreme deity. It is believed to have been constructed around the 12th century.

Ta Prohm, also known as the Tomb Raider Temple, in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Susan Glaser, Cleveland.com Carved stone on the wall of Bayon temple, part of Angkor Thom.

B igger than Greater Glasgow and decked in detailed bas-reliefs, the Unesco-venerated temples of Angkor in Cambodia’s second-largest city of Siem Reap are an outlier of sorts when it comes to ...

The 800-year-old Ta Prohm Temple, a.k.a “Tomb Raider Temple” feels especially wonderful—not because the site starred in the the 2001 film starring Angelina Jolie—but because climbing ...

Archaeologists at Ta Prohm temple in Cambodia have discovered a 800-year-old Buddha torso that matches a statue head found in 1927. ... one of three major discoveries in 2024. Richard Whiddington.

Ta Prohm Temple was made famous by its appearance in Tomb Raider, a movie and video game franchise. However, it was originally built as a Buddhist temple dedicated to the mother of King Jayavarman ...

Ta Prohm temple, one of the legendary Tomb Raider film locations in the Angkor Wat complex. Credit: Getty Images “Then The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel in 2011 sparked so much interest in India.

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Ed at the South Gate. Angkor has an impressive supporting cast of temples and gate­ways. An eight-mile long, 26-foot-tall wall surround Angkor Thom (“great city”), once the largest city in ...

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Not only are the likes of multi-tiered Angkor Wat, the stone heads of Bayon Temple, and taken-over-by-the-jungle Ta Prohm astonishing, there is another option for those prepared to head a little ...