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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