10/17/2012

Temple "Angkor Wat" Big Secret Exposed By Google Earth


Although it’s already known that the mighty ancient temple Angkor Wat and some other mighty structures at that time built using sandstone blocks which were extracted from the quarries. The architecture of this building suggest that round about 5 to 10 million of such sandstone blocks were used in its construction and some of them weighing about 1500 kg.Now the question in the researchers mind is that how these heavy blocks were carried to the temple from quarries? What was the way of transportation at that time? But recently by virtue of Google Earth, some lines that looked like a transportation network were observed. Field surveys revealed that the lines are a series of canals (some of them still hold water) connected by short stretches of road and river that lead from the quarries straight to the temple.
So it has assumed that these canals would have carried those heavy blocks from quarries down to temple of a distance of 37 km.But still researches not confirmed whether the blocks would've floated down the canals on rafts, boats or by virtue of some other method but it would have take thousands of workers and lots of methods to carry those blocks and the construction of this temple.

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