Building blocks of Angkor Wat were shipped in by canal

Building blocks of Angkor Wat were shipped in by canal – newscientist.com, October 20, 2012
It is never too late to find a shortcut. Centuries after the construction of Cambodia’s Angkor Wat, archaeologists have uncovered traces of a series of canals that suggest the 5 million tonnes of sandstone used to build the temples took a far shorter route than previously thought…