May
10
/ 2021
Angkor Wat was the enormous capital city of the Khmer Empire, located in modern day Cambodia. Now, a new study has attempted to understand the Khmer exodus, whereby the ancient mega-city of almost a million inhabitants was abandoned. Their new data points to the metropolis having been vacated over a long period of time. Our question is, how on Earth have they extracted this information from the iconic crumbling jungle temples we associate with ancient Cambodia? Before it was abandoned in 1431 AD, Angkor Wat is estimated to have been home to a staggering 700,000 to 900,000 inhabitants. The new study was published in the journal Science Advances, and the team of researchers from the University of British Columbia reached
