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NASA Discovers Ancient Hindu City


USA (VNN) - CNN reports that Archeologists have discovered never before seen layers beneath the famous Angkor Hindu temple in Northwestern Cambodia, which is considered the largest Hindu temple known on earth. With the help of newly developed space radar technology by NASA, layers of different kind of images taken from space, have revealed never before discovered detail of archeological structures beneath the earth.

This new technology has revealed a city surrounding the temple, the size of today's Los Angeles.

Also discovered were sculptures dating back further in time as previously estimated. Archeologists have until now estimated the structure's age to be 1000 years.

An entire new temple complex was also discovered (see picture below)

 




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