PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Oct. 22 (UPI) -- Archaeologists studying Cambodia's Angkor Wat say a series of canals may have been used as a shortcut to bring 5 million tons of stones to the temple site.
The sandstone blocks used to build the world's largest Hindu temple complex, each weighing up to 1.5 tons and originating from quarries at Mount Kulen, had long been thought to have been taken 25 miles along a canal to Tonl Sap Lake, rafted another 20 miles across the lake, then taken up the Siem Reap River for 10 miles against the current.