A lost city that flourished on a mist –covered Cambodian
mountain 1,200 years ago has been discovered by archeologists using airborne
laser technology reported by Herald of The Sydney Morning on June 15,2013.
Two dozen temple were discovered on the site which had been built
around 820 AD when the Angor Empire was in power.
Researchers believe that it might be the lost city of
Mahendaraparvata located on mountain called Phnom Kulen Deep in the neighborhood
of Cambodia.
Jean Baptiste Chevance , director of the Archeology and
Development foundation in London who led the expedition, told newspaper it was
known from ancient scriptures that a great warrior,Jayavarman II had a mountain
capital.
Whole expedition used an instrument called Lidar-Light
detection and ranging data which was strapped to a helicopter that crossed that
area
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