Great ancient city of Angkor is the greatest in the world.
The report showed that the use of technology, a new name in English that Lai standards (LIDAR), a technology using a laser to track and scan down to the bottom of the land to the researchers found the exact size of the city of Angkor, which has in the past of the Khmer.
The laser scans revealed aspects town has never been recorded before, the network connection between the castle, which is 1,200 years older. Aerial laser created the first detailed map of the whole view of the city, including a number of sites, roads and temples that had never known before. Archaeologist Damian Evans of the University of Sydney, chief author of the above article says that no one has a map of this ancient city in detail before, so it's separate the real secrets that can clearly see the city like this. It's exciting to see the evidence of human activity that generation still left scars still under the forest floor after the city did not have access and covered by forests for centuries.
Mr. Professor Damian Evans, the leader of this research project, said that because of the use of LIDAR technology, and we have to know the exact size of the city of Angkor in early. And the size of this ancient capital is greater than what we thought far.
Professor said, adding that since 1860, comes research and explore the ancient capital was the culmination of a series, and the researchers found a series also many temples that beyond line in buried in the forest and there are mountains, some other researchers have not arrived, and the research continues, so for me there was the castle many places that await us.
He said further that every whole city of Angkor structures such as roads, drainage systems use technology university Lai found, and that it might a great ancient city found in the history of mankind.
The archaeologists who have spent many years researching on the ground to draw a map of a 9 km which is the town of the region as a whole. But Lai showed larger towns so far are up to 35 square kilometers and has a population crowd than they used to believe in the past.
Damian Evans said that separate the real mystery is found that the downtown area has a multitude of the people living and plan the layout of the city is greater than previously thought in the past. See how much space we had previously overlooked influence our understanding of how these ancient cities were built.
Technology LiDAR is an advanced technology by the box of it comes carried with helicopters and firing laser down through the trees and the forest so far, ground and rays The test came up on the back brings with data de facto situation of the ground, underground and trees is create a map three sizes (3 D) details of the area. It is a useful tool for archaeologists because the laser can break through the thick trees and covers an area larger than the yellow pedestrian walking by analysts. Lai is used to navigate as well as other archaeological sites such as Stonehenge, UK. Reflection using laser cameras can make researchers aware of terrain and plants Angkor archaeological map of the resort with high accuracy. Especially LiDAR technology resulting passeth all important data that researchers and archaeologists can conclude that during the Khmer empire engineering developments Angkor restructuring municipal water expansion and climate change at that time.
In April 2012, the researchers equipped with a helicopter spent several days flying around the dense jungle in a height of 800 meters from the ground. Then archaeologists Australia and France to confirm the discovery by walking in the woods.
