The fifth edition was published on www.Amazon.com in March of 2026.
Scholars have written only about the men of Angkor; this is the first book about the women. I used ten sources to open a window onto the world of the queens: inscriptions, Coedes’ Genealogy of the Kings of Cambodia, rituals still performed today and royal paraphernalia still in use, surviving stone and brick structures, sculpture, archeological findings and airborne laser scanning, Sanskrit loan words, the account of a Chinese emissary to Angkor, and royal textiles still made today. I’ve included a synopsis of the life of Queen Jayarajadevi, and a decision tree to enable the reader to quickly identify female figures on the Angkorian temples.
203 pages, over 200 color photographs, all original research