Jungle Atlantis - Season 1 - Eps 1: Angkor Wat's Hidden Megacity
A thousand years ago, the Khmer people of Cambodia built an empire and their capital was the great city of Angkor, with its centrepiece being Angkor Wat - a vast temple complex covering an area more than four times the size of the Vatican City. In the first of this two-part programme, an international team of archaeologists and scientists use revolutionary technology to reveal the true scale and extent of the lost metropolis and find out how its people lived and died.
About Jungle Atlantis
Title: Jungle Atlantis
First Air Date: 2014-09-25
Last Air Date: 2014-10-02
Status: Ended
Rating: 8/10 (from 3 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 1
Total Episodes: 2
Network: BBC Two
Genres: Documentary
Production Companies: BBC
Synopsis
Millions of tourists visit Angkor Wat in Cambodia every year to marvel at its remarkable architecture, yet most are probably unaware that when it was built nearly 1,000 years ago it was even more impressive. Using remote sensing technology, scientists now know what is hidden beneath the nearby paddy fields and jungle: a sophisticated metropolis with an elaborate network of houses, canals, boulevards and temples covering 30 square kilometres that housed three-quarters of a million people. To put that into perspective, London at that time was home to just 18,000. These previously hidden finds tell us a great deal about life during the golden age of the powerful Khmer dynasty.
