Angkor and Koh Ker: Rival Capitals of the Khmer Empire

At the height of Southeast Asia's most powerful premodern state, the Khmer Empire briefly fractured its own center of gravity. Angkor and Koh Ker: Rival Capitals of the Khmer Empire explores one of the most dramatic and least understood episodes in Khmer history—the deliberate abandonment of Angkor and the rise of Koh Ker as an imperial capital. Spanning the reigns from Harshavarman I to Rajendrav...