1.0 link 167846 <![CDATA[Water Crisis, Not Just Rivals, May Have Collapsed Ancient Angkor]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/18/water-crisis-not-just-riv_n_167846.html BANGKOK &mdash; The collapse of Cambodia's great ancient city of Angkor may have been due to a massive drought nearly 600 years ago _ not just rival Siamese forces and widespread deforestation as previously suspected, a researcher said.

Brendan M. Buckley said Tuesday that bands from tree rings that he and his colleagues examined show that Southeast Asia was hit by a severe and prolonged drought from 1415 until 1439, coinciding with the period during which many archeologists believe Angkor collapsed.

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