It is speculated that the city should be built in the early 9th century and was the first city in the Khmer empire. Locals call this newly discovered ancient city the “Capricorn Indra Mountain City”. The archeologists went into the field to investigate and found that there are statues, temples, canals, roads, caves, and mounds that may be mausoleums. Similarly, due to the extremely scarce historical data of Cambodia’s Middle Ages, this ancient city is just like the Angkor civilization. The green laser pointer is full of mystery!
David Chandler, an emeritus professor at Monash University in Australia and a Cambodian history researcher, said that this new archaeological discovery will help people understand more about how the Angkor civilization prospered and how it decayed. This major archeological discovery was made by an archaeological team led by Australian archaeologist Damian Evans. They scanned an area of about 1,900 square kilometers with green laser pointers and finally found the remains of this ancient city hidden under a tropical rain forest.
Lidar, an archaeological “artifact”, “analyzes” a lost ancient city underground in the jungle that cannot be seen by the naked eye. This new technology, which is different from the traditional archaeological methods, will undoubtedly bring a lot of inspiration to future field archaeological exploration methods! This scientific archeological method is very suitable for archaeological exploration on a large scale and a large area. The information obtained from field surveys is often local, and the information obtained by laser scanning the ground at one time is more massive and cannot be compared with traditional archaeological methods.