A metropolis arose in medieval Cambodia – new research shows how many people lived in the Angkor Empire over time
- Written by Sarah Klassen, Postdoctoral Researcher of Archaeological Sciences, Leiden University
A visualization of daily life around Angkor Wat in the late 12th century.
Tom Chandler, Mike Yeates, Chandara Ung and Brent McKee, Monash University, 2021, CC BY-NC-NDHow big were the world’s ancient cities? At its height, the world’s first city of Uruk may have had about 40,000 people about 5,000 years ago. In the medieval period,...