Images from the ICR article.
Posted on 06/24/2013 8:54:30 AM PDT by fishtank
Images from the ICR article.
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?
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Because they elected a Kenyan mulatto with no leadership experience to “lead them”. His promise was hope and change. History does repeat itself.
They promoted a manchurian tribal leader, who actually was a soldier for their arch enemy?
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/
Good question. Ask the Anasazi in New Mexico. Except we can't, because they left their intact city about 1,000 years ago, too.
Bushes fault...........Pun intended!.................
Property taxes...............
They all moved to the suburbs...
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.
The Chinese might be able to explain that.
I know that is the weird part, there are cities that were around then still in use and populated to this day and yet, a hand-full had everyone and everything leave, no new tribes moving into sections, nothing, simply just gone for years and years.
Cambodia? Apparently it was seared, seared into their memories!
Agree.
Biologic is one reason. If it was place they thought made people sick/die....
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.
The lack of weathering, referenced at your link, really strikes me. Having been to Ankor Wat and Ankor Thom, it just isn’t consistent with what I saw. Also, there is the minor problem of stegosaurs being extinct for 140 million years.
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