The newest finds at Angkor Wat can only be described as
unreal. The ancient religious site in Cambodia recently yielded a treasure
trove of new discoveries—eight buried towers, a spiral, concealed paintings,
and the foundations of an entire medieval city.The rock towers are shattered in
their graves next to a gateway by the moat. The spiral, a unique structure made
of sand nearly 1.6 kilometers (1 mi) long, flows in rectangular lines.
Two
hundred paintings adorn the temple walls, and all are invisible to the naked
eye.When digitally enhanced, murals come to life depicting gods, horsemen,
animals, and musical scenes. Most spectacularly, laser technology recently
revealed a lost city. Called Mahendraparvata, it was previously only known from
ancient texts.The major temples of Angkor are surrounded by a considerable
urban area linked up by roads and canals. Mahendraparvata was among the first
capitals of the Khmer Empire and built centuries before Angkor Wat.
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