Exploring the Mysteries of Angkor Wat

I've spent a lot of time researching Cambodia.

If you look at,

so there are eight different pyramids in the media Angkor Wat area.

And these pyramids are massive.

And when you when you

walk up to them, you can see how incredibly ancient they are.

And the dating on these pyramids are, you know, 900 AD to 1300 AD.

So not very old, the official dating.

But when you stare at the stones, you can see the same thing you see in Egypt,

you see just ancient weathering patterns down the sides of them,

you can see how the whole site has been rebuilt.

And they don't talk about it, right.

So the entire history of Cambodia, nobody,

nobody is open at all to

exploring that it might be older than 800 AD.

Let's look at some photos of Angkor Wat,

because it's another incredibly bizarre place.

And when people use

the conventional timeline to date it, it's not, it's amazing.

And it's beautiful, but it's not as crazy.

When you really, if you take

into consideration that no one really knows when it was built,

and the possibility that it's actually 11 000 years old, 12 000 years old,

maybe even older.

It almost kind of makes sense.

Have you done?

It would look just like that. Yeah.

And the temples are the towers inside the core of Angkor Wat,

in my personal opinion, the core of Angkor Wat, it's got three different layers.

The core, I think, is extremely old.

It's got these five central towers,

they look almost melted. So you can see the five in the middle.

As you move out by each layer, all of the iconography in Angkor Wat changes.

So in the it's all deities,

it's religious symbolism.

As you move out, it becomes war scenes and elephants and battles, right?

So you can see where each successive culture has built on to the

outside of Angkor Wat. But the core of it, it looks enormously old.

And let's get some photos of the core of it.

Have you ever,

have you ever discussed the LIDAR findings around Angkor Wat? I have not.

Jamie, I have some photos in my Cambodia folder.

Trying to dance the line of looking at these before I switch over to your stuff.

God, look how beautiful that is.

Look how the tree's roots grow all around it.

Cambodia is one of the most special places on this earth.

Imagine what that was like during its prime.

That's the Bayon Temple, the temple with 218 faces.

Wow. Enormous faces.

So are those,

is that like, those are clearly different stones brought in?

Yeah, they're individual stones.

To compare to the other stuff we've seen where it's not that. Yeah, very different.

Very different kind of construction.

Spectacular, but maybe

makes more sense than like Kailasa.

In 2012, that's a great photo, Jamie.

In 2012, they did a LIDAR survey in Cambodia.

And what they discovered in

Cambodia completely shocked the world.

So you can see Angkor Wat in this photo is right in the middle of that giant moat.

There were huge mound fields all around Angkor Wat

inside this moat and outside of Angkor Wat.

And then if you go south of it, you can see these giant spiral embankments.

If you just zoom out a tiny bit,

Jamie, do you see those spirals in the bottom left side of the screen?

Those are from one side to the other. They're a mile long.

Yeah, so these are the geometric features at Angkor

Wat. And these are hidden from the naked eye?

Yes, they're under the jungle canopy.

Nobody knew that these were there until 2012 when the LiDAR results came

out. Holy shit.

There are mound fields that are a mile, this particular mound field is a mile long.

It's got, it's a 10 by 10 mound field and these mounds are enormous.

They're like 30 feet across.

And there's no explanation at all for what these

are. And they didn't even know they existed? They didn't even know they existed.

So this is Angkor Wat from the air, very, very interesting.

That western beret where you see,

that's a man made, it's the largest hand cut reservoir on earth.

It's eight kilometers long and two kilometers wide.

So you can see the old Siem Reap International Airport just south of it.

That's the size of this thing. It is enormous.

The official archaeological story of these berets is that they were

hand dug and that they were used to water rice.

There's one on the left side,

that's the western beret. There's an equally large one on the east side.

So there are two of them that are eight kilometers long on each side,

two kilometers wide.

And just an enormous volume of dirt would have had to have been removed

to create these.

And there's no discussion at all about what they were for, how they were made.

They're just attributed to different kings based on

inscriptions found in the corners of these sites.

So if you want to talk about mysteries, in my humble opinion,

Cambodia is one of the most mysterious places on earth.

What did they, how old do they think this reservoir is?

Like 900 AD. So not old at all.

And there's no explanation for how it was done.

Just to excavate

the western beret is the equivalent of 53 Giza sized pyramids

of dirt moved out of it.