Archaeologists, with the help of NASA, have discovered that the ancient settlement of Angkor, now a World Heritage Site in Cambodia, is nearly three times larger than they previously believed, according to a new study. The city, once the capital of the Khmer empire, covered an area of over 1,100 square miles and could have supported Replica Tag Heuer cw5140.fc8147 Monaco Watch nearly half a million people. Australian, French, and Cambodian archaeologists used radar imagery provided by NASA to map the boundaries of the city, which includes the temple of Angkor Wat.The study also suggested that an environmental disaster was at least partly to blame for the civilization’s collapse in the 14th century.“Angkor was as extensive enough, and the agricultural exploitation intensive enough, to have created a number of very serious environmental problems,” Damian Evans, lead author of the , told the AFP.
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