Thanks to modern laser technology, Southeast Asia’s Khmer Empire is rising from forest floors for the first time in centuries. A helicopter carrying light detection and ranging equipment, lidar for ...

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 ...

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 ...

The temple of Angkor Wat was much larger and more complex than previously thought, University of Sydney archaeologists have discovered. The University of Sydney's Professor Roland Fletcher and Dr ...

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 ...

Angkor, in what is now Cambodia, was one of the most populated cities in the world from the 9th to 15th centuries CE. That said, archaeologists have struggled with knowing just how many people ...