Asian lost city

Description:Buy Another French archaeologist, Philippe Stern, trekked to the top of the Phnom Kulen plateau in , and in five weeks of excavations he and his co-workers uncovered the ruins of 17 Hindu temples, fallen carved lintels, statues of the Hindu god Vishnu, and remnants of a great stone pyramid. Stern believed that he had located Mahendraparvata. Then came decades of neglect and horror. Four years later, President Nixon escalated a secret bombing campaign of Cambodia, killing tens of thousands and helping to turn a ragtag group of Communist guerrillas into the fanatical Khmer Rouge. About two million people—nearly one-quarter of the population—were executed or died of starvation and disease before the Vietnamese toppled the Khmer Rouge in Chevance reached Phnom Kulen in , while conducting research for advanced degrees in Khmer archaeology.

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