The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A view past the bridge that accesses Angkor Wat reveals Cambodians going about life in the shadow of the great twelfth century temple complex. As some men stand or squat in the foreground, others have set up stalls in the right background, possibly to sell produce or refreshments to tourists and visitors. Various tracks and footpaths crisscross the Angkor Wat complex and its surrounds, indicative of its part in the daily life of the Cambodians of the region who collect wood from its forests and travel through it every day.
On a street outside Cambodia's National Museum in Phnom Penh, a cyclo (also known as a trishaw) driver dozes in the heat whilst awaiting business as a group of foreigners (possibly non government agen
As the rising sun clears away the morning mist, four Khmer workers from the Siem Reap area arrive at the twelfth century temple complex of Angkor Wat with tools to continue work on clearing a mass of
Avoiding cobras that infest the area, workers clear a mass of vegetation, weeds and rubbish from a section of the moat which surrounds the twelfth century temple complex of Angkor Wat, using simple im
Richly carved temples in the vast temple complex of Angkor Wat.
An aerial view taken just north of Siem Reap and looking west, of the temple complex of Angkor Wat, built by the Khmer king Suryavarman II in the late twelfth century. The flat cleared space in the fo
Angkor, Cambodia, 1993-06-04. One of the elaborate entrance gateways to the temple complex of Angkor Wat. (Original 35mm positive housed in AWM Archive Store)
Australian journalist Marje Prior (right, holding microphone) interviews Australian Federal Police (AFP) contingent member Shane Connelly (left) as they sit above the crumbling and overgrown ruins of
