Angkor, the ancient capital of the Khmer Empire, has been mapped for the first time using laser light. The technique called LIDAR, which uses billions of reflected light beams to map the topography ...

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Researchers have uncovered an ancient "lost city" that was one of the first capitals of the Khmer Empire in Cambodia, according to a new study published by Cambridge University Press. Scientists led ...

To the untrained eye, the ruins of Koh Ker look a lot like Angkor Wat: weathered masonry, vine-tangled walls, and inscriptions carved into stone. You may feel like the hero of an adventure film, ...

A team of archaeologists led by Christine Hawixbrock is excavating a site in what was the ancient Khmer city of Kurukshetra. And after digging through multiple “cultural layers” of earth, they make a ...