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The Ancient City of Angkor Wat Had a Population Larger Than Modern-Day Boston, According to New Archaeological Research Using LiDAR and machine learning, archaeologists estimate the population in the Greater Angkor Region may have hit 900,000. May 10, 2021 The face towers at the Bayon Temple are a well-known feature of the "downtown" area of the greater Angkor region. Photo by Alison Carter, courtesy of the University of Oregon. The massive temple complex that is Cambodia’s Angkor Wat is famed as the world’s largest religious monument. Now, researchers have determined the city’s populat...

Prior to one of the world’s largest medieval cities being abandoned, close to a million people lived there. Cambodia’s Greater Angkor region thrived between the 9th and 15th centuries and especially during its peak in the 13 th century. During that time, between 700,000 and 900,000 people inhabited a wide area. More specifically, about 750,000 people resided in an area about 1,000 square kilometers in the central part of Angkor. This means that the capital city of the Khmer Empire was one of the biggest pre-modern settlements in all of history. The location is famously known for its stone...

 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 Cambodia's Greater Angkor region was home to 700,000-900,000 people. The sprawling city, which thrived from the 9th to 15th centuries, has slowly revealed its forest-hidden past to archaeologis...