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  • Ancient city’s complex of roads canals found hidden under dense Cambodian forest

    SYDNEY, Australia -- Airborne laser technology has uncovered a network of roadways and canals in Cambodia, illustrating a bustling ancient city linking the country's famed Angkor Wat temple complex.The discovery was announced in a paper released early by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The laser scanning revealed a previously undocumented, formally planned urban ...

  • Cambodian Lost City Revealed with Airborne Lasers

    lost city of Mahendraparvata , previously known only from 1200 year old inscriptions. Mahendraparvata, one of the first capitals of the Khmer Empire, was considered lost to history and known only by documents dating to 802 A.D. The Cambodian Archaeology and Development Foundation, searching the region of Phnom Kulen near Angkor, used an airborne laser scanning technology known as LiDAR (Light ...

  • Video of Cambodias homebrew bamboo railroad - Boing Boing

    Cambodian bamboo railroad I wrote about in 2006; this being a homebrew railroad running at 40km/h off an electric motor, along decrepit and degenerating rails that only see one scheduled train per week. It's a pretty amazing ...

  • Lost Medieval City Discovered Beneath Cambodian Jungle - LiveScience.com

    '); Here, the lost city of Mahendraparvata revealed in a shaded relief map of terrain beneath the vegetation in the Phnom Kulen acquisition area, with elevation derived from the lidar digital terrain model at 0.5 meter resolution and 4x vertical exaggeration. Green denotes previously documented archaeological features; areas shaded red contain newly documented features indicative of an ...

  • Cambodian lost city discovered using new scanning technology

    A team of Australian researchers have uncovered a 1,200-year-old city buried beneath the jungles of Cambodia thanks to new technology that allowed them to create a detailed archeological survey. The city, which predates the famous Angkor Wat by several centuries, indicates the previously known temple complex was a part of a much larger, sprawling city rather than a walled-in city. ...


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Baxter

Baxter

If the question is, "What do animals think?," then the answer supplied by "Baxter" is, "You don't want to know." The titular canine, whose thoughts provide the voice-over narration to this twisted tale, is a sort of anti-Lassie. While the majority of movie dogs have been sentimental, lovable heroes àla Lassie or Old Yeller, Baxter stands as their complete antithesis, both emotionally and ph ... ...

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  • Cambodias lost city discovered near Angkor Wat

    Cambodia's lost city of Mahendraparvata lay hidden beneath a canopy of dense vegetation. Airborne lasers produced a detailed map of a vast cityscape, including highways and previously undiscovered temples near Cambodia's prized Angkor Wat ...

  • Laser Scanning Reveals New Parts of an Ancient Cambodian City

    Layer cake: The top image shows a digital recreation of Agur Wat, with elevation derived collected by LIDAR; the bottom image shows the raw LIDAR digital terrain model, with red lines indicate modern linear features including roads and canals. /.story-img --> Airborne laser scanning has revealed the remnants of a vast urban structure in the vicinity ...

  • Government Initiative in Laos Encourages Pro-Choice Agenda

    Christian Communities in Laos Committed to Defend LifeLAOS, May 29, 2013 (Zenit.org) - A family planning campaign launched by the Department for Health Care in the province of Huaphan, located in eastern Laos, encourages women to undergo surgical sterilization (tubal ligation). According to Fides News Agency, the project, supported by the United Nations Fund for Population Activities ...

  • Laser reveals hidden network of ancient Cambodian city

    Cambodia's Banteay Srey is the temple with the most delicated and preserved stonecarvings in the Angkor Archeological Park in Siem Reap. (IAN WALTON/AFP/Getty Images) Laser technology has confirmed the existence of a 1,200-year-old Cambodian city obscured by mountain ...

  • Airborne lasers reveal Cambodias lost city - Telegraph.co.uk

    Airborne laser technology has uncovered a network of roadways and canals, illustrating a bustling ancient city linking Cambodia's famed Angkor Wat temples ...

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