Ea Darith received bachelor of arts from Royal University of Fine Arts in Phnom Penh in 1995, master’s degree from Kyoto University in 2000, and doctoral degree from Osaka Ohtani University in Japan in 2010.

From 2000 to 2021, he has been working at APSARA National Authority and teaching at the Royal University of Fine Arts and Pannasatra University. He was a Nalanda Sriwijaya Center Senior Visiting Fellow in Singapore in 2014–15 and has codirected joint field-school projects.


In 2018, he was a visiting scholar at Cornell University, USA and also gave lectures on Koh Ker site at Yale, Wisconsin and Northern Illinois Universities. Since July 2021, He has been working at National Authority for Preah Vihear as Director of Department of Conservation and Archaeology. He joined a team to prepare a dossier for nomination of Koh Ker site in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2023.