Archaeological researchers have discovered giant inexplicable spiral features protruding from the ground just south of Angkor Wat. The shapes, several kilometres across but just tens of centimetres high, have no obvious purpose and have left researchers baffled. Archaeologist Dr Damian Evans from the University of Sydney discovered six spiral-like shapes from an aerial topographic survey of the land with a vegetation penetrating sensor. His data shows three intact shapes which look like square spirals, and three features almost entirely demolished by an Angkorian canal. “We still don’t know what these features are. There would have been six at one stage – it’s difficult to reconstruct because it’s a very complicated palimpsest, the aggregation of several cities in the same area over the course of several centuries,” Evans said.
Posted on: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 14:40:48 +0000
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