If you’ve explored the ruins of Pompeii, Petra, the Acropolis, Giza, Tikal, or Machu Picchu and feel like you’ve seen the best archaeology has to offer, think again. Like a fictional “Choose Your Own Adventure” book, Cambodia’s ancient city of Angkor plays out one thrilling chapter after another as you navigate across 154 square miles of skyscraping jungle in search of hundreds of Hindu and Buddhist monuments. Unlike Angkor’s veneered peers, a web of dense undergrowth still envelops and buries much of the city, leading to got-to-see-it-to-believe-it stone-hewn temples constructed between the ninth and fifteenth centuries, now capped by mammoth tree roots and plant-clad walls waiting to be unearthed.
With the Khmer Rouge a distant memory, the complete de-mining of land mines around Angkor and the proximate town of Siem…
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Naples Illustrated (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2023