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

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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