The City of Angkor and Climate Change

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The City of Angkor and Climate Change

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What modern cities can learn from ancient Angkor’s climate catastrophe
By: Robin Spiess - Posted on: October 25, 2018

The Khmer Empire was the most sophisticated and prosperous kingdom in preindustrial Southeast Asia, and the city of Angkor was its most developed metropolis. First founded in the 900s, the capital grew and flourished over time to become the world’s largest city at the turn of the 13th century. With its terraces, pools and palaces, the city’s immense size rivalled that of present-day cities like Los Angeles and Berlin.

But the prosperity did not last. A recent report published in Science Advances has shed light on the reason why this ancient megacity crumbled into ruins, and more pertinently, includes a chilling premonition of how its demise could provide important lessons for Southeast Asia’s modern metropolises.

Researchers from the University of Sydney and the École française d’Extrême-Orient turned to evidence hidden in the city’s extensive waterways to make sense of Angkor’s eventual abandonment and ultimate collapse. While some historians have cited a Siamese invasion in the 13th century as the main cause of the city’s downfall, the report urges that “several factors” were at play in the city’s abandonment – and that first and foremost, the city’s fall was a result of instability resulting from consistently damaging climate change.
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