The Lost City Of Mahendraparvata Has Been Found After 1200 Years
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[QUOTE]A lost medieval city that thrived on a mist-shrouded Cambodian mountain 1,200 years ago has been discovered by archaeologists using revolutionary airborne laser technology, a report said.
In what it called a world exclusive, the Sydney Morning Herald said the city, Mahendraparvata, included temples hidden by jungle for centuries, many of which have not been looted.
A journalist and photographer from the newspaper accompanied the "Indiana Jones-style" expedition, led by a French-born archaeologist, through landmine-strewn jungle in the Siem Reap region where Angkor Wat, the largest Hindi temple complex in the world, is located.
The expedition used an instrument called Lidar -- light detection and ranging data -- which was strapped to a helicopter that criss-crossed a mountain north of Angkor Wat for seven days, providing data that matched years of ground research by archaeologists.
It effectively peeled away the jungle canopy using billions of laser pulses, allowing archaeologists to see structures that were in perfect squares, completing a map of the city which years of painstaking ground research had been unable to achieve, the report said.
It helped reveal the city that reportedly founded the Angkor Empire in 802 AD, uncovering more than two dozen previously unrecorded temples and evidence of ancient canals, dykes and roads using satellite navigation coordinates gathered from the instrument's data.
Jean-Baptiste Chevance, director of the Archaeology and Development Foundation in London who led the expedition, told the newspaper it was known from ancient scriptures that a great warrior, Jayavarman II, had a mountain capital, "but we didn't know how all the dots fitted, exactly how it all came together".
"We now know from the new data the city was for sure connected by roads, canals and dykes," he said.
The discovery is set to be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in the United States.
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Exploring a lost city in the jungle would be so fucking cool, I want to go :v:
And this is when they discover some long forgotten horror locked away in the darkness and all of humanity is doomed.
GG archaeologists.
It's awesome that we are still discovering this like that to this day.
I can't wait to see what they uncover. To be able to be amongst the group that got to explore the ruins for the first time in centuries must have been such a rush!
[QUOTE=madmanmad;41046016]And this is when they discover some long forgotten horror locked away in the darkness and all of humanity is doomed.
GG archaeologists.[/QUOTE]
Nah mate it's just Mantorok; he's actually kinda chill once you get to know him.
[quote]discovered by archaeologists using revolutionary airborne laser technology[/quote]
Wasn't this in that shitty AvP film?
Take that, everyone who says "you can't explore the world anymore."
[editline]15th June 2013[/editline]
[QUOTE=Shibbey;41046191]Wasn't this in that shitty AvP film?[/QUOTE]
No, that was a thermal camera that went off due to the temple heating up.
[quote]In 2004, a satellite detects a mysterious heat bloom beneath Bouvetøya, an island about one thousand miles north of Antarctica.[/quote]
[QUOTE=-n3o-;41046029]It's awesome that we are still discovering this like that to this day.[/QUOTE]
There's a lot more to discover under the ocean.
[QUOTE=deathstarboot;41046534]There's a lot more to discover under the ocean.[/QUOTE]
yeah there's loads of lost cambodian cities on the sea floor
[QUOTE=deathstarboot;41046534]There's a lot more to discover under the ocean.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=.Isak.;41046558]yeah there's loads of lost cambodian cities on the sea floor[/QUOTE]
that's no cambodian
it's a Great Old One
Eh, he's just there to answer your calls and be snarkily amoral about it.
[QUOTE=NorthernFall;41046006]Exploring a lost city in the jungle would be so fucking cool, I want to go :v:[/QUOTE]
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Sure as hell will be fun, so they said.
Hope they watch out for the inevitable pit of snakes/scorpions
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