It has long been the accepted wisdom that the magnificent temples at Angkor in Cambodia -- with Angkor Wat the most famous -- were only the tip of the proverbial iceberg of what was once the Khmer ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. LIDAR sends out a million laser points to create a digital outline of the land's surface. Scientists are using these high-tech renderings to ...

EUGENE, Ore. -- May 7, 2021 -- Long-running archaeological research, boosted by airborne lidar sensing and machine-learning algorithms, finds that Cambodia's Greater Angkor region was home to ...

How big were the world’s ancient cities? At its height, the world’s first city of Uruk may have had about 40,000 people about 5,000 years ago. In the medieval period, London may have had a population ...

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 ...

Angkor Wat is one of the most significant archaeological sites in Southeast Asia and one of the major draws for travellers to ...