ANGKOR WAT: THE LARGEST TEMPLE ON EARTH WAS SWALLOWED BY JUNGLE
Episode 11 | History's Mysteries — Unexplained Structures & Places
In this Mystery episode we focus on Angkor Wat — a 12th-century complex covering 400 square kilometers, the center of a city that housed perhaps one million people and was the largest pre-industrial city on earth, abandoned and swallowed by jungle until European missionaries stumbled on it in the 16th century.
This episode covers the Khmer Empire's extraordinary hydraulic engineering, the theological vision behind the temple construction, the LiDAR surveys since 2012 that revealed the urban network was vastly larger than…
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