Praveen Mohan: Cambodia’s Sacred Path—Angkor Wat, Lingams & the Mysteries Within

Summary

Researcher Praveen Mohan argues that Cambodia's Khmer temples, including Angkor Wat, the largest religious monument in the world, may be more than 10,000 years old rather than the accepted 900 to 1,200 years. He describes thousands of lingams found by LIDAR and carved into riverbeds, which he believes may have worked as energy devices, early electrotherapy, or even signal towers used to terraform the landscape. The conversation also covers Vimanas (ancient flying machines), a Naga queen legend, a remote viewer's claim of extraterrestrial metal atop a forbidden pyramid, and a temple carving that resembles a dinosaur.

Key takeaways

• 1Host Cliff Dunning promotes his upcoming book 'The Maya Controversy', which argues that the pre-classic Maya were migrants from South America, Africa, Europe and Asia rather than Bering Strait arrivals.
• 2Cambodia's traditional founding story describes an Indian king who married a Naga (reptile) princess.
• 3A pyramid called the Vimanaka ('flying machine') near Angkor Wat is off-limits to climbers. Locals say the king met a female Naga at its summit every night, and a Chinese traveler described a glowing golden dome on top.
• 4Remote viewer Nikki Dutta claimed the Vimanaka's summit held metal mixed with extraterrestrial material, with a lingam and two tunnels buried beneath it.
• 5LIDAR 'mound fields' at Angkor Wat are claimed to be buried lingams, and thousands of lingams are carved into the bedrock under the stream at Phnom Kulen.
• 6The Koh Ker pyramid allegedly once held an 18-foot crystal quartz lingam, and a 14-foot lingam sits atop Phnom Bok.
• 7At Baphuon temple, Mohan says a lingam base contained a stone box with 16 metals. He compares it to the Baghdad Battery as a form of ancient electrotherapy.
• 8A stegosaurus-like carving appears at Ta Prohm temple, the filming location for 'Tomb Raider'.
• 9The Sri Rangam Temple in India allegedly has a sealed underground chamber where a Vimana was found, and the hosts mention a rumored Vimana discovered in a cave in Afghanistan.
• 10The episode cites the Vaimanika Shastra, the Trishanku Svarga terraforming story, and the Brahmastra as ancient references to aircraft, terraforming and nuclear-style weapons.

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Transcript excerpt

So there's a kind of a secret that is, I don't know if you want to call it a secret, but it's more like a known factor when it comes to the Mayan culture, the ancient Maya of Mexico and Central America. And what that is, is that there are these two distinct periods, the pre-classic, roughly 2000 BCE to 200 AD, and then the classic, which is up to about 400 or 500 years ago. But there's a split. There's a division of 200 plus years at the end of the pre-classic and then the launch of the classic. Now, this isn't really discussed in the general public. Occasionally, you'll read about it in a journal, maybe the Smithsonian or National Geographic, but it's not really discussed that much. And why it's important, and why it's important for me, is that the pre-classic are not rudimentary people. They are very sophisticated. And they have their own language. And I always talk about this. We haven't deciphered their language. We have a few words, perhaps, maybe part of a meaning of a topic, But that's about it. And that's a huge problem. We've had Dr. Richard Hansen on the program a number of times. And remember, he's excavating El Miador in Guatemala. And this is one of the big cities with their own vast highway of causeways, which are another word for highways, roads, these cement and masonry roads. But what's a curious notion here? is that we don't see any rudimentary pyramids. We don't see testing of archaeological or architectural temples and designs and weight-bearing arches and things like that. These items show up on the archaeological record. And this shouldn't be this way. ...

Excerpt from Earth Ancients, Oct 31, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.