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Article: Archaeology from a space craft: radar specialists at NASA have transformed archaeologists' views of Angkor in Cambodia. Samson Spanier reports on the remarkable discoveries being made from space.
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- October 1, 2004
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration in America has transformed archaeology by creating radar maps of the earth from space or from the air. At Angkor, Cambodia, radar has led to the discovery of not only numerous small shrines but also of the total extent of a lost city. 'Working with NASA was great; they looked at the images with a completely different viewpoint to mine,' said Elizabeth Moore, an archaeologist at the School of African and Oriental Studies, London.
Angkor is a gigantic urban complex dating from the ninth to the sixteenth centuries, built and frequented by the Khmer empire, an indigenous Cambodian people who were influenced by both ...