Table of Contents

Origins; Embodying Power; Founding Angkor; Expanding the Empire; Monuments as Cosmos: The Age of Angkor Wat; The Universal Monarch; Chronology.

About the Author

Helen Ibbitson Jessup is founder and President of the Board of Directors of Friends of Khmer Culture, an organization established to support Khmer arts and cultural organizations. A scholar and curator specializing in the art and architecture of Southeast Asia, she is the author of 'Art and Architecture of Cambodia', (Thames & Hudson), 'Passage to Angkor', with photographs by Kenro Izu (Channel Photographics), and 'Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia: Millennium of Glory' (Thames & Hudson). She was curator of the Sculpture of Angkor and Ancient Cambodia exhibition at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., and co-curator of a recent exhibition of Khmer art in Zurich. She lives in Connecticut. Barry Brukoff is an award-winning photographer whose books include 'The Enigma of Stonehenge', text by John Fowles (Summit); 'Morocco', text by Paul Bowles (Abrams); 'Greece: Land of Light', text by Nicholas Gage (Bulfinch); and 'Machu Picchu' , text by Pablo Neruda in a new translation (Bulfinch). He has been photographing the temples of Cambodia since 1963. He lives in California.