This web area draws heavily from a book written by Eleanor Mannikka Angkor Wat: Time, Space, and Kingship, University of Hawaii Press, ISBN 0-8248-1720-6. I highly recommend reading this valuable contribution to the study of the Khmer culture. Angkor Wat is a complex place that comes alive in Mannikka's book. This site, so threatened by modern affairs, is one of the truly manumental legacies of human ingenuity and the complexity of the architecture and beauty of the art illustrate what a treasure Angkor Wat is as a treasure for humanity.