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[Pisball fldaisusule se | ee or is the scene of one of the greatest vanishing acts of all time. The Khmer kingdom from the ninth to the 15" centuries, and ¥ as 750,000 people lived in Angkor, its ceoiet ll aking it the most extensive urban complex of the pre-industrial world. By the late 168 tury, when Portuguese missionaries came upon the lotus-shaped towers of Angkor Wat most elaborate of the city’s temples and the world’s largest religious monument — the flourishing capital of the empire was in ruins. ars have come up with a long list of suspected causes, mostly guesswork: roughly 1,300 inscriptions survive on the temple, but the people a

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