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Angkor's Water Crisis: The Hydraulic City That Dried Up
Angkor was the largest pre-industrial city in the world, with over a million people at its peak. But its astonishing water management system—a sprawling network of canals, reservoirs, and embankments—may have also been its undoing. In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how the Khmer Empire engineered a hydraulic wonder, only to see it destabilize the city from within. They examine the role of the West Baray, the East Baray, and the massive Indratataka reservoir; the delicate interplay between monsoon rains and sedimentation; and how the gradual silting of canals forced the empire to build…
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