The city of Angkor and its environs, which once held more than 60 temples
and a million residents, dates between the 9th and 15th centuries AD. This
major Khmer site was organized around several vast reservoirs (large dark
rectangles,
numbered 3,
4, and 6), interconnected by canals used for transportation and irrigation
throughout the central zone. The main temple complexes, including
Angkor Wat (2),
the larger Angkor Thom (1), and Preah Khan (5) are now mainly
covered by rainforest, making visual air surveys difficult. Aided by new
radar satellite imagery, however, areas both at
Kalipura near Angkor
Wat and north of Angkor Thom are revealing previously unknown structures
and canals.
[Fig.1: SIR-C image of the center of Angkor (NASA-JPL P-45156 ).]
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