ANGKOR WAT: THE LARGEST TEMPLE ON EARTH WAS SWALLOWED BY JUNGLE

Episode 11 | History's Mysteries — Unexplained Structures & PlacesIn this Mystery episode we focus on Angkor Wat — a 12th-century complex covering 400 square kilometers, the center of a city that housed perhaps one million people and was the largest pre-industrial city on earth, abandoned and swallowed by jungle until European missionaries stumbled on it in the 16th century.This episode covers the Khmer Empire's extraordinary hydraulic engineering, the theological vision behind the temple construction, the LiDAR surveys since 2012 that revealed the urban network was vastly larger than anyone had understood, and the environmental collapse — drought and hydraulic failure — that appears to have driven the city's gradual abandonment.Nobody outside the region knew it had existed for nearly four centuries.#HistoryMystery #AngkorWat #KhmerEmpire #Cambodia #MysteryPodcast