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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: Sprawling Angkor Brought Down by Overpopulation, Study Suggests


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The Prasat Kravanh is just one of more than a thousand temples in the sprawling, long-lost kingdom of Angkor.

A new study suggests overexploitation and overpopulation may have helped bring down the mysterious civilization.

Photograph by David Alan Harvey/NGS