Towers of the legendary Angkor Wat temple are seen north of
Siem Reap provincial town, about 230 kilometers, 143 miles, northwest of the
capital Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on June 8, 2006. Siem Reap is Cambodia’s main
tourist destination where the famed Angkor temples are located and attracting
millions of dollars in revenue every year for the poor Southeast Asian nation.
(AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
AIRBORNE LASER TECHNOLOGY has uncovered a network of
roadways and canals, illustrating a bustling ancient city linking Cambodia’s
famed Angkor Wat temples complex.
The discovery was announced late Monday in a peer-reviewed
paper released early by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences. The laser scanning revealed a previously undocumented formal urban
planned landscape integrating the 1,200-year-old temples.
Source : Angkor Wat Temple
