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Beyond Angkor: How lasers revealed a lost city

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posted on Sep, 23 2014 @ 08:54 AM
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Deep in the Cambodian jungle lie the remains of a vast medieval city, which was hidden for centuries. New archaeological techniques are now revealing its secrets - including an elaborate network of temples and boulevards, and sophisticated engineering. In April 1858 a young French explorer, Henri Mouhot, sailed from London to south-east Asia. For the next three years he travelled widely, discovering exotic jungle insects that still bear his name.

Today he would be all but forgotten were it not for his journal, published in 1863, two years after he died of fever in Laos, aged just 35. Mouhot's account captured the public imagination, but not because of the beetles and spiders he found. Readers were gripped by his vivid descriptions of vast temples consumed by the jungle: Mouhot introduced the world to the lost medieval city of Angkor in Cambodia and its romantic, awe-inspiring splendour. "One of these temples, a rival to that of Solomon, and erected by some ancient Michelangelo, might take an honourable place beside our most beautiful buildings. It is grander than anything left to us by Greece or Rome," he wrote.



Its fscinating to see modern technology uncovering the ancient past. Theres still lots to find out there.


edit on 23/9/14 by EnigmaAgent because: (no reason given)



posted on Sep, 23 2014 @ 09:32 AM
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Very nice post...I love this technology.



posted on Sep, 23 2014 @ 12:27 PM
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I believe the programme is being broadcast on the 25th and there will be a podcast available after that.



 
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