Ancient Angkor’s mysterious decline may have been slow, not sudden
Sediment analyses suggest that the city’s elite gradually abandoned the Khmer Empire capital
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CREEPING DEMISE Once the world’s biggest city, Angkor in Cambodia waned slowly as its ruling class left throughout the 1300s, researchers say.
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