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Cassie Coppersmith of Secrets in Stone returns, and she and Matt go site by site through Cambodia, from Phnom Bakheng, where Matt's team played a sound bowl inside a temple, to Pre Rup, Baphuon, Ta Keo, Bakong, the seven-tier pyramid at Koh Ker, the LiDAR spirals beside Angkor Wat and the great barays. Their case is that the first Khmer kings claimed, repaired and wrote their names on pyramids and a water system that were already standing, and then struggled to keep that water system running. Drawing on his expedition there with Robert Schoch, Matt follows the code he has traced through Lake Van and Mount Nemrut, three doors, five towers and the guardian lions, by way of the Vatican pine cone, to the five towers of Angkor Wat.
CHAPTERS
0:00 Trailer
2:37 Cassie Coppersmith returns for Cambodia
9:59 Pre Rup, where Cassie first doubted the official story
13:03 Lathe-cut stone spindles and the theme of five
18:34 Bayon, Baphuon and how the Khmer got the credit
30:25 Robert Schoch, Baphuon and a sound bowl at Phnom Bakheng
42:26 Cambodia's eight pyramids, and a timeline that runs backwards
48:27 Hard sandstone on laterite, and the stones that sing
56:51 Koh Ker, the pyramid Cassie believes is the oldest
1:08:43 LiDAR: the spirals and mound fields around Angkor Wat
1:21:29 One stonework signature: Ayanis, Peru, Egypt and Cambodia
1:29:09 Bakong and the carbon-dated door beam
1:39:49 The giant lingams of Koh Ker
1:48:53 The Puok River, the East Baray and one water system
1:58:58 Phnom Krom, Baphuon and the step pyramid symbol
2:06:39 The Kef relief, the Vatican pine cone and Angkor Wat
2:12:41 We were masters of everything
GUEST
Cassie Coppersmith researches megalithic sites around the world on her YouTube channel Secrets in Stone
(@CassieCoppersmith).
https://www.youtube.com/@CassieCoppersmith
MATTHEW LACROIX
https://thestageoftime.com
BOOKS
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