It has long been the accepted wisdom that the magnificent temples at Angkor in Cambodia -- with Angkor Wat the most famous -- were only the tip of the proverbial iceberg of what was once the Khmer ...

Angkor, the ancient capital of the Khmer Empire, has been mapped for the first time using laser light. The technique called LIDAR, which uses billions of reflected light beams to map the topography ...

SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA – For decades, archaeologists here kept their eyes on the ground as they tramped through thick jungle, rice paddies and buffalo grazing fields, emerald green and soft with mud ...

Researchers in northwestern Cambodia have carried out the largest airborne laser-scanning archaeological project to date. They used lidar to survey 900 square miles of the densely forested Angkor ...

Lidar mapping of the area surrounding the Angkor Wat temple complex in northwestern Cambodia shows that beneath thick forest cover an ancient city-block-style grid extends beyond the site’s ...

Archaeologists in Cambodia have found multiple, previously undocumented medieval cities not far from the ancient temple city of Angkor Wat, the Guardian can reveal, in groundbreaking discoveries that ...

How big were the world’s ancient cities? At its height, the world’s first city of Uruk may have had about 40,000 people about 5,000 years ago. In the medieval period, London may have had a population ...

A lost city known only from inscriptions that existed some 1,200 years ago near Angkor in what is now Cambodia has been uncovered using airborne laser scanning. The previously undocumented cityscape, ...

The temple of Angkor Wat was much larger and more complex than previously thought, archaeologists have discovered, noting that it had more components than previously envisaged, and was bounded on its ...

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Technology Review has an article out on advances in lidar technology. The article is a reminder of just how many fronts there are where we’re seeing large technological advances with possible ...