Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Airborne laser reveals city under Cambodian earth - Yahoo! News

 Amazing!:
Airborne laser reveals city under Cambodian earth - Yahoo! News: SYDNEY (AP) — 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.

No comments: