[fishtank]

Images from the ICR article.

[ThomasMore]

[edcoil]

Why would an intact city simply be vacated by everyone, all creatures, etc and left so long as to be covered by plants and simply disappear into history?

[martin_fierro]

ping

[Beowulf9]

Interesting but looks suspiciously new.

The explaination that the back is leaves is ridiculous but the other thought that a film company may have created it makes me wonder.

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2009/03/stegosaurus-rhinoceros-hoax/

[RadiationRomeo]

I was going to claim that the stegasaurus never existed but that was the triceratops. But the carving isn’t necessarily a stegasaurus, it may be a small reptile that went extinct during the Angkor Wat days, which isn’t that long ago. People back then were very busy building canals and reservoirs to double the growing season for rice to feed the ever increasing population. A lot of earth was moved, some land was drained and other places were flooded. I can see some animals going extinct.

But the most mysterious thing about the carving is that it is the only one. Something as awesome as a huge stegasaurus should have been in more artwork. And I would have expected it to be depicted in Indian or Chinese art even if the animal lived only in the Khmer region. Very strange.

[Larry Lucido]

Cambodia? Apparently it was seared, seared into their memories!

[yarddog]

I remember reading a similar story on Cambodia around 1957. I think it was in “My weekly Reader” but it could have been something else.

[JoeFromSidney]

I find this interesting for a totally unrelated reason. Back during the Vietnam War I was involved in a project to "see through" the jungle canopy. The idea was to take photographs from multiple angles, then use the same math as is used in Computed Tomography to "reconstruct" what was under the canopy. We couldn't get it to work, for a variety of reasons.

LIDAR is an entirely different approach. The LIDAR pulse will be scattered by the canopy, and the pulse reflected from below the canopy will be further scattered, but so long as there is enough energy getting back to the LIDAR, the same processing as is used in RADAR will give an image of what's under the canopy. The image will be somewhat blurred because the scattering will give multiple echoes from the same object, but apparently it's good enough to locate a temple.

What this means is that from now on, jungle or forest canopies will not suffice to hide insurgents, cocaine laboratories, or moonshiners. Get used to having your concealment stripped away.