Hidden Beneath Cambodia’s Jungles: The Ancient Water Empire That Put Modern Cities to Shame
The Khmer Empire created the most sophisticated water management system in the ancient world, sustaining over one million people with gravity-fed canals, massive reservoirs, and precision engineering that modern cities still can’t match. This hydraulic marvel controlled monsoons and droughts across 400 square miles of jungle, creating the largest pre-industrial city on Earth.
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