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Archaeologists report that 700,000-900,000 people lived in Cambodia’s medieval Greater Angkor region. The sprawling tropical city, which covered 3,000 square kilometers (1,158 square miles), thrived from the 9th to the 15th centuries before being abandoned, possibly due to climate change. The paper, which combines more than 30 years of data with recent airborne lidar sensing, appears in the journal Knowing the population and how it was distributed is vital for potentially helping cities now ...

 E-Mail IMAGE: A pair of contemporary Cambodian houses: The house in the background is made from wood and modern materials. The house in the foreground was built traditionally from organic materials such... view more  Credit: Photo by Alison Carter EUGENE, Ore. -- May 7, 2021 -- Long-running archaeological research, boosted by airborne lidar sensing and machine-learning algorithms, finds that Cambodias Greater Angkor region was home to 700,000-900,000 people. The sprawling city, which...