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Angkor Wat is the Easter equivalent of the pyramids in Egypt: It was always a mystery how the millions, multi-ton blocks ended up in the city. Angkor Wat was built from five to ten million bricks, of which some 1,500 pounds were heavy.
Network of canals Researchers from Japan's Waseda University have developed a new theory that could explain how they got stones in the city. They examined the area where the stones came from, and found a network of quarries between the foot of Mount Kulen and Angkor Wat. Since the stones would come from. On satellite images then they saw that there was a complex system luz negra of hundreds of channels between the foot of the mountain. That would explain how the largest stones were transported to the city.
Speculations Archaeologists were already longer behind the sandstone blocks came from a nearby mountain. There has been much speculation about the mode of huge stones. Initially it was thought that the blocks through one channel were transported towards the Tonle Sap Lake. From there, the building luz negra blocks were upstream from another river to the temples were rowed.
Channels as transportation Khmer, the people who built Angkor Wat, was already famous for its use of channels of transportation. The building blocks were transported luz negra on rafts on the channels, but the route as suggested always seemed to be too long to make this possible. The ride would be at around 90 kilometers long! The new route found by archaeologists is only 37 kilometers. "That luz negra is a much more plausible explanation," says archaeologist Estuo Uchida.
Close Route The shorter route could also explain why Angkor Wat was built so quickly. "Because the Khmer during transport took a kind of 'round', the building was a lot faster than would normally have been the case," says Uchida. The enormous complex of Angkor Wat was built in lightning speed. The temples in the area of 200 hectares were put down in only a couple of decades, an exceptionally short time.
The temple city of Angkor Wat in Cambodia was present in the 12th century by King Suryavarman II of the Khmer Empire. Initially, the city was built as a tribute to the Hindu God Vishnu, but in the 14th century, the complex was renamed Buddhist temple. Angkor luz negra Wat is now on the World Heritage List
Facebook Twitter Email Source material: "Quarries and transportation routes of Angkor monument sandstone blocks" - ScienceDirect The photo at the top of this article by Michael Toye (cc via Flickr.com).
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