La scienza svela il segreto delle Devata di Angkor Wat

Torino, Italy – For a thousand years, the jungle temple of Angkor Wat in modern Cambodia has preserved an unexamined artistic treasure: nearly 2,000 detailed human portraits carved in a single generation. Scientists from Michigan State University presented results of the first scientific analysis at a computer vision conference in Istanbul on August 22, 2010.
educators have now translated the initial results into Italian, and produced the captivating video overview below for Italian viewers.
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