CAMBODIA TRADITIONAL FESTIVALS Khmers’ love of family social events, with music and an abundance of food, is best seen at the numerous festivals which are…

CAMBODIA ARCHITECTURE The house of the local people in ancient Khmer was more or less similar to those found today in villages of modern Cambodia.…

CAMBODIA TRADITIONAL DANCE The epic poem of Rama (Ramayana) is believed to have been revealed to a Hindu holy man named Valmiki by Brahma, the…

CAMBODIA LANGUAGE The Khmer language is a member of the Mon-Khmer subfamily of the Austroasiatic language group. French, once the language of government in Indochina,…

CAMBODIA TRADITIONAL COSTUMES Most Cambodians dress up casually except when they are attending formal events. It is common to see men and women using Krama,…

THE CAMBODIA PRE-HISTORY   Prehistoric Cambodia is sparsely known. The earliest known site in Cambodia is Laang Spean cave which occupies the country’s northwest region.…

CAMBODIA ANGKOR ERA Bayon Temple, Angkor Thom The giant faces carved on the Bayon temple at the Angkor Thum complex in northwestern Cambodia represent both…

THE KHMER KINGDOM The first civilization of Cambodia existed from the 1st to 6th century in a State called Funan. In that time, trades became…

THE OVERVIEW OF CAMBODIA HISTORY The history of Cambodia began in the first century A.D with the establishment of a State called Funan. Funan is…

  CAMBODIA DARK AGE This map of Southeast Asia in the mid-16th century shows the major centers of power in the region prior to the…

THE FRENCH DOMINATION PERIOD Phnom Penh, as planned by the French, came to resemble a town in provincial France. By the second half of the…

THE ADMINISTRATION OF SIHANOU As a result of the Geneva Conference on Indochina, Cambodia was able to bring about the withdrawal of the Viet Minh…