After the collapse of Angkor in 1431, many statues were taken to the Ayutthaya capital of Ayutthaya in the west, Higham, C., 2001, The Civilization of Angkor, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 139–140 while others departed for the new center of Khmer society at Longvek further south, though the official capital later moved, first to Oudong around 45 kilometers from Phnom Penh in Ponhea Leu District, and then to the present site of Phnom Penh.