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 ...

The LiDAR results confirmed what archaeological scholars such as Dr. Roland Fletcher have suspected from inscriptions -- that remote cities such as Koh Ker must have been service centers or satellite ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. LIDAR sends out a million laser points to create a digital outline of the land's surface. Scientists are using these high-tech renderings to ...

EUGENE, Ore. -- May 7, 2021 -- Long-running archaeological research, boosted by airborne lidar sensing and machine-learning algorithms, finds that Cambodia's Greater Angkor region was home to ...

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 ...

Angkor, in what is now Cambodia, was one of the most populated cities in the world from the 9th to 15th centuries CE. That said, archaeologists have struggled with knowing just how many people ...