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| The team at Siem Reap’s École Française d’Extrême-Orient look at a map of the site. Photograph: Terence Carter |
Revealed: Cambodia's vast medieval cities hidden beneath the jungle
Exclusive: Laser technology reveals cities concealed under the earth which would have made up the world’s largest empire in 12th century
The Guardian | 11 June 2016
Archaeologists in Cambodia
have found multiple, previously undocumented medieval cities not far
from the ancient temple city of Angkor Wat, the Guardian can reveal, in
groundbreaking discoveries that promise to upend key assumptions about
south-east Asia’s history.
The Australian archaeologist Dr Damian Evans, whose findings will be
published in the Journal of Archaeological Science on Monday, will
announce that cutting-edge airborne laser scanning technology has
revealed multiple cities between 900 and 1,400 years old beneath the
tropical forest floor, some of which rival the size of Cambodia’s
capital, Phnom Penh.
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