Multiple Previously Undocumented Cities Discovered in Cambodia

There will be a major announcement today on the discovery using the latest airborne scanning technology of many new cities beneath Cambodia's forest floor, some the size of Phnom Penh.

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Some experts believe that the recently analysed data – captured in 2015 during the most extensive airborne study ever undertaken by an archaeological project, covering 734 sq miles (1,901 sq km) – shows that the colossal, densely populated cities would have constituted the largest empire on earth at the time of its peak in the 12th century.

Evans said: “We have entire cities discovered beneath the forest that no one knew were there – at Preah Khan of Kompong Svay and, it turns out, we uncovered only a part of Mahendraparvata on Phnom Kulen [in the 2012 survey] … this time we got the whole deal and it’s big, the size of Phnom Penh big.”

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...mbodian-jungle

The scientists say that these new discoveries will "upend key assumptions about south-east Asia’s history."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/vi...r-region-video