Mystery of Angkor Wat Temple's Huge Stones Solved

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  Getty Images - SIEM REAP, CAMBODIA - NOVEMBER 20: Korean tourists get their photo taken on the grounds of the Angkor Wat temple November 20, 2007 in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Tourism continues to grow to an average …more  of 30 percent a year with new shopping centers and hotels lining the streets of Siem Reap. The Angkor Wat temple is a fast growing tourist destination with 1.7 million visiting last year. Preservationists in Cambodia, one of Southeast Asia's poorest countries, are seriously concern over damages created by constant overcrowding in touring the temple with numbers exceeding the capacity the site can manage. Angkor Wat was built between the ninth and fifteenth centuries, but was officially rediscovered in 1860 by French naturalist Henri Mouhot. The temple was later restored with the help of both UNESCO and archaeologists from France and Japan. (Photo Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)  less 

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The massive sandstone bricks used to construct the 12th-century temple of Angkor Wat were brought to the site via a network of hundreds of canals, according to new research.

The findings shed light on how the site's 5 million to 10 million bricks, some weighing up to 3,300 pounds (1,500 kilograms), made it to the temple from quarries at the base of a nearby mountain.

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