How big were the world’s ancient cities? At its height, the world’s first city of Uruk may have had about 40,000 people about 5,000 years ago. In the medieval period, London may have had a population ...

Angkor, in what is now Cambodia, was one of the most populated cities in the world from the 9th to 15th centuries CE. That said, archaeologists have struggled with knowing just how many people ...

At its height in the 13th century, Angkor boasted a population of around 700,000 to 900,000. Christian Haugen via Flickr under CC BY 2.0 During the 13th century, the southeast Asian city of ...

Premieres Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2026 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream with KPBS+/ Encores Sunday, Feb. 1 at 3 p.m. on KPBS TV and 9 p.m. on KPBS 2. New evidence sheds light on the remarkable life – and ...

Three people were killed and several others were injured when lightning struck Cambodia's famous Angkor Wat temple complex. According to foreign media such as The Straits Times and the Associated ...

📜 Building Angkor: Temple City - Let's take a little tour around Suryavarman II crowning achievement, the temple that took only 33 years to complete, while Europeans were taking centuries to build ...